Skip to content

Seagate · NAS Pro drive · ST14000NT001

Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB

A NAS drive for bigger boxes. Seagate doesn't cap the bay count, and it's rated for 550 TB of reads and writes a year.

Capacity
14 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
5 years
Workload
550 TB/yr
Rated for
Any bay count
Failure rate
No failure data

Good for

  • Any size of NAS
  • Busy arrays (550 TB a year)
  • RAID, SHR and ZFS rebuilds
  • 5 years' warranty

Not for

  • A desk or bedroom (7,200 rpm is the louder class)

Updated 27 Oct 2026 · Method 2.0

Should you buy the IronWolf Pro 14 TB?

It earns the extra once you're filling a big box or hammering the array with Plex and backups around the clock, as the 550 TB a year rating leaves plenty of headroom. You also get five years' warranty, two more than the cheapest NAS lines. It's CMR, which is what you want anywhere near a RAID or ZFS rebuild.

Watch out for

At 7,200 rpm it's from the louder, warmer class. Fine in a cupboard, less fun on a desk.

There's no Backblaze data worth quoting here. On paper it makes 20 dB at idle and 26 dB seeking. Seagate lists 5 W at idle and 7.6 W working, which comes to 44 kWh a year for a drive that idles around the clock. Four of them in SHR or RAID 5 give 42 TB usable, or 38.2 TB once Windows has done its binary maths on it.