Not all IronWolf Pro drives are as quiet because the professional audience that the Pro drives target do not really care much about sound levels. But they still stay under a pretty quiet 32 dB level. VueVille Verdict

Hi there! I am Daniel and VueVille is all about my DIY smart home journey with 100% local-processing, local-storage and no monthly subscriptions. I wouldn’t mix two different drives together even if they are from the same brand. Some reasons being: the slower drive will limit the faster drive to the same speed during RAID operations, and noise and vibration characteristics would be different. So its best you choose identical models if possible.

So I have been researching the various NAS hard drives from WD, Seagate and other top brands. I looked at WD RED vs. Seagate IronWolf drives recently. That’s when I came across the Ironwolf Pro range.

Lyve: Periferie-naar-cloudplatform voor massaopslag Lyve Cloud: Voordelige objectopslag, ontworpen voor de multicloud Maak een einde aan de kosten en complexiteit van het opslaan, verplaatsen en activeren van gegevens op schaal. The Ironwolf has a noise level rating of 23-32dB, which is low enough to place the NAS in your living room or in your study. Another major difference is the rotational speed. As you can see in the comparison table above, the larger Ironwolf drives from 8 TB and upwards rotate at 7200 rpm but the smaller capacity models run at 5400 or 5900 rpm. But all the IronWolf Pro drives run at 7200 rpm. Performance The IronWolf Pro has a much higher rated transfer speed than the IronWolf, as can be seen in the comparison table above.

The Pro drives also have a higher workload rating of 300 TB/year vs. the Ironwolf’s 180TB/year. But that doesn’t tell us the full story.

For a few years now I have been using WD RED NAS hard drives in my DIY NAS NVR. But these are running 24/7 and its only a matter of time before I need to start replacing them one by one.