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Seagate IronWolf 10TB

Built for 2- to 8-bay NAS boxes, and that's as far as Seagate's rating goes.

Capacity
10 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
3 years
Workload
180 TB/yr
Rated for
Up to 8 bays
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • A 2- to 8-bay NAS in a cupboard
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds

Not for

  • Boxes with more than 8 bays
  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)
  • Heavy daily writes (180 TB a year rating)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Should you buy the IronWolf 10 TB?

Speed over silence, basically. At 7,200 rpm it's quicker than the 5,400 rpm crowd, and it'll suit a small box that lives out of earshot. It's CMR, which is what you want anywhere near a RAID or ZFS rebuild.

Watch out for

If there's any chance you'll move to a bigger box later, a pro line saves buying drives twice. The trade-off is three years' warranty and a 180 TB a year workload rating, which is fine for a media library that mostly sits there and tight if you shift terabytes around every week (scrubs and rebuilds count towards it too).

No Backblaze failure rate for this one. They don't run enough of them, if any, for a figure worth quoting. On paper it makes 28 dB at idle and 32 dB seeking. Seagate lists 7.8 W at idle and 10.1 W working, which comes to 68 kWh a year for a drive that idles around the clock. A 4-bay box full of these gives 30 TB after one drive's worth of parity.