I got a Ironwolf pro as a replacement when the Ironwolf I had purchased failed.
These pros are really noisy drives compared to the non-pro. Not noisy in terms of spinning sound at high rpms but they click and clack around inside seeking as soon as you have parallel requests coming into different parts of the platters.
Also, not very happy with the mixed read and write performance of these drives. Seem to dip down to less than half of their max.
Ok in a NAS with RAID configuration necessary for decent performance or mostly sequential reads serving media content.
Not saying that the WD Red Plus I also have is any better in performance but at least they are quieter.
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These pros are really noisy drives compared to the non-pro. Not noisy in terms of spinning sound at high rpms but they click and clack around inside seeking as soon as you have parallel requests coming into different parts of the platters.
Also, not very happy with the mixed read and write performance of these drives. Seem to dip down to less than half of their max.
Ok in a NAS with RAID configuration necessary for decent performance or mostly sequential reads serving media content.
Not saying that the WD Red Plus I also have is any better in performance but at least they are quieter.