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Synology HAT5310 16TB

A pro NAS drive that Synology rates for any number of bays, whether that's a 4-bay desktop unit or a 12-bay rack.

Capacity
16 TB
Recording
CMR
Speed
7,200 rpm
Warranty
5 years
Workload
550 TB/yr
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 HAT5310 16 TB?

Go for it if you're building something bigger than a 4-bay box. It also earns its keep on a busy pool where scrubs and rebuilds never let up, because the 550 TB a year workload rating is there for exactly that. You also get five years' warranty, two more than the cheapest NAS lines. Recording is CMR, the right kind for RAID and ZFS.

Watch out for

Being 7,200 rpm, it's in the noisier, warmer class of drive, and you'll want it somewhere you don't sit.

Backblaze doesn't run enough of these for a failure rate we'd publish. Synology lists 4.16 W at idle and 8.35 W working, which comes to 36 kWh a year for a drive that idles around the clock. A 4-bay box full of these gives 48 TB after one drive's worth of parity.