Seagate IronWolf 110 NAS SSD 480 GB

[W1zzard]

The Seagate IronWolf 110 SSD is the first solid-state drive optimized for use in a NAS. It comes with the best and most consistent write speeds we've seen in a long time. On top of the five-year warranty, Seagate includes a data recovery service that will recover your files in case of failure.

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[Wavetrex]

I'm guessing this would be useful in live recording of different kinds.
Surveillance, or a video studio, like YouTubers or live vloggers that also want to record full quality.

In such cases where the events only happen once, you can't risk your storage system to crap out on you due to buffers filling and fail to record properly (skip frames, or just plain stop recording)

 

[JalleR]

I guess the High prise is because "Four Micron DDR3-1866 DRAM chips provide a total of 512 GB of fast DRAM for the controller to store the SSD mapping tables in. "

 

[Ferrum Master]

Last time I had such flat curve was with my Crucial M550. At least with NAND based drives. I really like it.

 

[newtekie1]

Yeah, that is an awesome write curve.

One thing I'd like to see in the testing is a mixed access curves like the write curve test.

 

[Deleted member 158293]

Not cheap, but interesting. It does look like these are specifically made for multi-user, tiered storage solutions with the larger dram cache for consistency.

 

[W1zzard]

I guess the High prise is because "Four Micron DDR3-1866 DRAM chips provide a total of 512 GB of fast DRAM for the controller to store the SSD mapping tables in. "

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[John Naylor]

I'm guessing this would be useful in live recording of different kinds.
Surveillance, or a video studio, like YouTubers or live vloggers that also want to record full quality.

In such cases where the events only happen once, you can't risk your storage system to crap out on you due to buffers filling and fail to record properly (skip frames, or just plain stop recording)

Tho many times the hardware is virtually identically, firmware implementation is typically geared towards a particular usage. For enertrpise devices, I/O is the thing ... For surveillance write speed is the thing and so on.

Use storage devices optimized for enterprise usage in server builds
Use storage devices optimized for NAS usage in NAS builds
Use storage devices optimized for Surveillance usage in Surveillance builds

I would think here that for NAS, optimization would focus on consistent read / write speeds as well as I/O . For video production / surveillance, I'd expect less focus on I/O and tweak the write speeds as much as possible.

 

[efahl]

I guess the High prise is because "Four Micron DDR3-1866 DRAM chips provide a total of 512 GB of fast DRAM for the controller to store the SSD mapping tables in. "

Dayum, I had no idea they were making such dense DDR3! I gotta get me some terabytes of that stuff.

 

[bug]

I'm guessing this would be useful in live recording of different kinds.
Surveillance, or a video studio, like YouTubers or live vloggers that also want to record full quality.

In such cases where the events only happen once, you can't risk your storage system to crap out on you due to buffers filling and fail to record properly (skip frames, or just plain stop recording)

That's what I was thinking, too. The only thing that needs the bandwidth of SSD is video. And yet 480GB is too low for that. Of course you can do RAID5 and increase the overall capacity, but at $145/per disk, that is anything but cheap.

 

[newtekie1]

That's what I was thinking, too. The only thing that needs the bandwidth of SSD is video. And yet 480GB is too low for that. Of course you can do RAID5 and increase the overall capacity, but at $145/per disk, that is anything but cheap.

I think the whole idea here is RAID. They tuned the drive to have a very consistent write speed, unlike most desktop drives that write fast for a short while but then the SLC cache fills up and the write speed drops off. That write speed drop can cause some RAID controllers to mark the drive as failed. This drive kind of bridges the gap between standard desktop SSDs and enterprise SSD, just like the NAS hard drives Seagate and WD put out. This isn't the drive to buy if you want a desktop SSD, and Seagate isn't selling it that way.

 

[bug]

I think the whole idea here is RAID. They tuned the drive to have a very consistent write speed, unlike most desktop drives that write fast for a short while but then the SLC cache fills up and the write speed drops off. That write speed drop can cause some RAID controllers to mark the drive as failed. This drive kind of bridges the gap between standard desktop SSDs and enterprise SSD, just like the NAS hard drives Seagate and WD put out. This isn't the drive to buy if you want a desktop SSD, and Seagate isn't selling it that way.

Yes, but even among NAS solutions, this isn't an automatic fit. Most NAS solutions are used to store music/picture/videos and just read them. This only fits a setup that actually writes a lot (frequent backups would fit the bill and I can't name anything else otoh).

 

[newtekie1]

Yes, but even among NAS solutions, this isn't an automatic fit. Most NAS solutions are used to store music/picture/videos and just read them. This only fits a setup that actually writes a lot (frequent backups would fit the bill and I can't name anything else otoh).

It isn't about writing content to the drives constantly during day to day use, it's just about the RAID controller during even small writes. Some drives have a really small cache, and even when you're just doing the initial data transfer, that's enough to trip the controller to fail the drive.

 

[seagate_surfer]

Tho many times the hardware is virtually identically, firmware implementation is typically geared towards a particular usage. For enertrpise devices, I/O is the thing ... For surveillance write speed is the thing and so on.

Use storage devices optimized for enterprise usage in server builds
Use storage devices optimized for NAS usage in NAS builds
Use storage devices optimized for Surveillance usage in Surveillance builds

I would think here that for NAS, optimization would focus on consistent read / write speeds as well as I/O . For video production / surveillance, I'd expect less focus on I/O and tweak the write speeds as much as possible.

Consistency in performance is right. You can read what Synology has come up with in their comparison and testing here: https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/125947

 

[StrayKAT]

Is Micron making most of their drives? I thought they were benefactors of that Toshiba/Sandisk debacle.