Best selling Hard drives
Here's a ranking of the best products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've also added some key information about the products.
1. WD Red Plus
High-performance hard drives designed for performance, reliability, and energy efficiency in small to medium NAS environments.
WD Red Plus hard drives are ideal for power user workloads and NAS environments in small to medium-sized businesses. They provide the necessary speed and capacity to store, protect, and share growing amounts of data in mid-sized RAID-optimized NAS systems in an energy-efficient manner.
Optimized for NAS with NASware
The exclusive Western Digital NASware technology optimizes the hard drive parameters for NAS system workloads to enhance performance and reliability.
Designed for continuous operation
Your NAS system runs around the clock. Therefore, highly reliable storage is essential. WD Red Plus hard drives are designed for always-on systems, giving users the confidence that they can reliably access their data.
Tested for reliable compatibility
Western Digital collaborates with various NAS system manufacturers to conduct extensive testing and ensure compatibility with most NAS enclosures.
Optimized for lower total cost of ownership
WD Red Plus hard drives consume less power than previous models and operate cooler, reducing operating costs and minimizing heat in hard-to-cool NAS enclosures.
Less power consumption, strong performance
Despite consuming less power, the hard drives have a tremendous bandwidth to meet the mixed performance demands of multi-drive NAS systems.
Balanced for increased reliability
Hard drives without proper mass balancing can cause excessive vibrations and noise in multi-drive systems, which can reduce the lifespan of the drives and lead to performance degradation over time.
2. Toshiba MG10 Series
The MG10 series features Toshiba's fourth-generation helium-sealed design with 10 hard drives to increase CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) density to 2TB per drive and achieve a total capacity of up to 20TB. The industry-standard 3.5-inch form factor offers 7200 RPM performance and integrates easily into cloud storage infrastructures, mission-critical servers and storage, and file and object storage solutions. The massive 20TB CMR capacity is delivered through Toshiba's innovative Flux Control Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology. These advances help the MG10 Series deliver optimal storage capacity and application compatibility with unsurpassed data reliability. Available with a 6.0Gbps SATA interface, MG10 Series models integrate easily into standard 3.5-inch drive bays to reduce the footprint and operational load of cloud storage infrastructures, file and object storage systems, and mission-critical servers and storage systems.
3. WD Red Pro
The WD Red Pro hard drives have been specially developed for medium-sized or large business customers and are available for NAS systems with up to 24 drive bays. Designed for high-intensity workloads in 24x7 environments, the WD Red Pro family is ideal for archiving and sharing content as well as building RAID arrays in advanced operating systems such as ZFS and other file systems. These hard drives increase efficiency by enabling your employees to quickly share files and reliably back up folders in your NAS solution. Designed for optimal NAS compatibility - WD Red Pro drives with NASware technology simplify drive selection. This unique algorithm is optimised for NAS systems and provides the right balance of performance and reliability in NAS and RAID environments. In short: WD Red Pro is the hard drive with the highest compatibility for NAS enclosures.
4. Seagate IronWolf Pro High WRL
The IronWolf Pro is designed for reliable performance in environments with consistently demanding workloads. It is designed for high performance in commercial and enterprise multi-bay NAS storage solutions with multiple users and applications. Optimised for NAS: thanks to AgileArray AgileArray enables two-level balancing and time-limited error correction for first-class RAID performance in multi-bay systems. Continuous operation, continuous availability IronWolf Pro hard drives are designed for continuous operation so that users can access their data anytime, anywhere. Full portfolio with CMR: All IronWolf Pro drives utilise Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) for consistent, best-in-class NAS performance. Up to 20 TB A wide range of high capacities enables scalable and cost-effective storage solutions. Robust: IronWolf Pro hard drives offer a workload rating of 550 TB/year. This allows businesses and enterprises to seamlessly store, share and utilise large amounts of networked data on NAS systems. Unrivalled reliability and longevity: IronWolf hard drives offer an MTBF of up to 2.5 million hours.
5. Seagate IronWolf
IronWolf is designed for everything related to NAS. The always-ready IronWolf drives feature AgileArray technology for optimal system flexibility and reliability. With multi-user technology and high workload rates, IronWolf can scale alongside your business. AgileArray provides NAS optimization for the best possible NAS experience, focusing on drive balance, RAID optimization, and power consumption. The two-plane balancing and sensors that measure rotational vibrations reduce vibrations in NAS enclosures with multiple drive bays for consistent performance and high reliability. RAID optimization enhances performance and reliability through error recovery control to boost data integrity. Advanced power management lowers energy consumption and delivers power when the NAS needs it most. With multi-user technology, you have more options with your NAS. With user workloads of up to 180 TB/year on IronWolf, multiple users can easily upload or download data to and from a NAS server. Whether you belong to a creative profession or work in a small business, IronWolf is on your side. With expandable and reliable storage, you and your creative business can always meet deadlines. IronWolf is a great addition to your NAS, offering remote access 24/7, backups, and file sharing from anywhere for seamless idea exchange. IronWolf meets the challenges of growing agencies regarding the scalability of NAS solutions and increasing storage demands.
6. Seagate Exos 7E10
The Seagate Enterprise hard drive Exos 7E10 reliably stores data without performance loss. These secure hard drives, with high capacity and performance, are optimized for demanding bulk data applications in enterprises.
7. Seagate BarraCuda
The BarraCuda offers high storage capacity for desktop and mobile computers. All hard drives in the BarraCuda product family are equipped with Multi-Tier Caching (MTC). With MTC, your PC can reach new performance heights, allowing you to load applications and files faster than ever. Thanks to intelligent NAND flash layers, DRAM, and media caching technologies, BarraCuda provides enhanced read and write performance by optimizing data flow.
8. WD Purple
Uncompromising Video Surveillance Storage
WD Purple hard drives are designed to meet the challenges of continuous video surveillance. They are specifically developed for surveillance systems to withstand the increased heat and vibrations that can occur in NVR devices. Common desktop hard drives are designed for short-term operation, but not for the harsh conditions of a 24/7 HD surveillance system. With WD Purple hard drives, you get reliable video surveillance storage that has been tested for compatibility with numerous video surveillance systems. The exclusive AllFrame technology reduces frame loss and enhances video playback.
Industry-leading storage. Surveillance solutions you can trust
Western Digital has been providing storage solutions for video surveillance for over ten years. With WD Purple hard drives, you receive storage for video surveillance that is designed for continuous operation in surveillance systems and high temperatures, ensuring high-quality video playback at all times.
Western Digital's exclusive AllFrame technology
All WD Purple hard drives feature AllFrame technology, which reduces image loss and improves video recording and playback.
Higher workload rate
WD Purple hard drives offer a workload rate of up to 180 TB/year. This is three times more than our desktop hard drives, making them well-suited for the high demands of modern DVR and NVR video surveillance systems.
Multiple cameras, multiple streams
Modern recorders now support multiple video streams per camera. WD Purple hard drives support up to 64 single-stream HD cameras. With this versatility, you can easily expand your security system at any time.
9. Toshiba MG10F Series
As Big Data drives the demand for more distributed storage in the cloud and on-premises, enterprise server and storage systems must be built with trusted solutions. Toshiba's Enterprise Capacity Hard Drive – MG Series offers formatted capacities of up to 22 TB with interface options such as SATA and SAS, enabling 24/7 operation with a workload of 550 TB/year. The MG Series is ideal for enterprise storage arrays as well as industrial server and storage systems. It provides the capacity and advanced technologies to meet the specific requirements of data centers and cloud scaling infrastructures.
10. Synology Plus Series HAT3300-4T
Powerful hard drives with concentrated power for private users and SMEs. The Synology Plus series hard drives deliver robust performance and are specifically designed to meet the demands for reliability, endurance, and performance for continuous operation in Synology's SME storage systems. Rigorously tested and equipped with optimized, easily executable firmware updates via Synology DiskStation Manager, the HDDs remain up to date with the latest technology, ensuring long-lasting, smooth operation.
Designed for durability. The HDDs in the Synology Plus series have a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1 million hours and a workload rating of 180 TB per year – up to three times that of conventional desktop hard drives. Over 300,000 hours of compatibility and stress testing ensure smooth operation even in multi-user environments.
Convenient firmware updates. Users are automatically notified of available firmware updates for the Synology Plus series HDDs and can effortlessly update the drives in the DiskStation Manager (DSM) on their Synology storage system. No external tools are required, and the drives do not need to be removed for the update.
Reliable recording technology. Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) provides consistent performance.
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