Seagate Introduces IronWolf Pro 22 TB HDD Offering Class-Leading Dependability and Performance

[TheLostSwede]

Today, at the NAB 2023 conference, Seagate Technology Holdings plc, a world leader in data storage infrastructure solutions, introduced the new Seagate IronWolf Pro 22 TB conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based hard disk drive (HDD). The company's highest capacity CMR HDD, the new drives deliver market-leading capacity, dependability, and powerful performance for multi-user workloads and enterprise RAID solutions

Optimised with Seagate's AgileArray technology, the new Seagate IronWolf Pro 22 TB HDD provides exceptional network-attached-storage (NAS), direct-attached-storage (DAS) performance and RAID reliability in multi-bay and multi-user environments. With user workload rates of 550 TB/year, the IronWolf Pro 22 TB HDD enables commercial and enterprise NAS users to seamlessly store, share, and collaborate on large amounts of data over a network. It also offers an SDR of up to 285 MB/s so users can seamlessly share files, back up, and tackle heavy workloads in multi-user NAS environments. With built-in rotational vibration (RV) sensors to provide RV mitigation, the HDD consistently delivers high performance and reliability in multi-bay systems.




The drive delivers a five-year limited warranty and up to 2.5M-hr MTBF for hassle-free data storage and best-in-class TCO. Also equipped with Seagate's IronWolf Health Management system and three years of complimentary Rescue Data Recovery Services, the Seagate IronWolf Pro 22 TB HDD gives users peace of mind knowing their data is secure.

The Seagate IronWolf Pro 22 TB HDD is available now for a list price of $599.99

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[RegaeRevaeb]

Any thoughts on whether these will drive down 20TB models... even a touch?

 

[kondamin]

Any thoughts on whether these will drive down 20TB models... even a touch?

They would rather sink those to the bottom of the ocean than to lower the price a cent.

 

[phill]

Always found the Ironwolf models to be more expensive than the EXOS models and they are an Enterprise class of drive... So strange.. 20TB about £300 at the moment, wonder what the 22TB models will be and how much formatted space they'll actually end up with

 

[Bwaze]

Is there even any home user line that's designed for use in PC?

Everything is focused on "enterprise" now, all the drives are NAS and multi-user optimised - but apparently all these drives are very loud - so loud that they're even a distraction if used in a NAS tucked away in a corner...

And reviews mostly don't even cover this, because these drives aren't expected to be in the room with people - or when they do cover it, they just report the stated manufacturer sound level (which is very optimistic).

I know home users are now mostly covered with SSD drives - but as a hobby photographer and videographer with need for a larger storage that's just as expensive as it was 4 years ago, we're actually going backwards as far as 4TB and 8TB drives are concerned.

 

[evernessince]

Is there even any home user line that's designed for use in PC?

Everything is focused on "enterprise" now, all the drives are NAS and multi-user optimised - but apparently all these drives are very loud - so loud that they're even a distraction if used in a NAS tucked away in a corner...

And reviews mostly don't even cover this, because these drives aren't expected to be in the room with people - or when they do cover it, they just report the stated manufacturer sound level (which is very optimistic).

I know home users are now mostly covered with SSD drives - but as a hobby photographer and videographer with need for a larger storage that's just as expensive as it was 4 years ago, we're actually going backwards as far as 4TB and 8TB drives are concerned.

I have stack of 18TB Seagate Exos drives next to me and I can tell you they are a decently quiet. Helium drives in general tend to emit less noise but some of them make a higher pitched sound.

The biggest problem for me with enterprise drives is vibrations when you have 5-6 of them running at once. That can be solved with rubber grommets though.

 

[Bwaze]

I have stack of 18TB Seagate Exos drives next to me and I can tell you they are a decently quiet. Helium drives in general tend to emit less noise but some of them make a higher pitched sound.

The biggest problem for me with enterprise drives is vibrations when you have 5-6 of them running at once. That can be solved with rubber grommets though.

"Decently quiet" compared to what? Sub 10TB WD Red?

Net is full of very conflicting user experience, people have apparently very different threshold for what is loud. I guess it's probably also enviroment related - I live in a quiet village with almost no trafic, no air-conditioning, very quiet water cooled PC (with fans that spin down in idle) - so I usually hear the difference exaggerated.

But it's easy to find user reviews for Exos drives as:

"Loud as hell, and constant head noise on all Exos 10Tb+"

"YES. I just replaced 5 4TB WD Red Pros (Raid6) with 5 12TB Exos X14s (4-Raid10, 1 hot spare). Oh my, what a racket. Clunk, clunk, bang. They are MUCH louder than the Red Pros"

And there are of course reviews that state they are whisper silent and that fan in their NAS is louder...

 

[Wirko]

Everything is focused on "enterprise" now, all the drives are NAS and multi-user optimised - but apparently all these drives are very loud - so loud that they're even a distraction if used in a NAS tucked away in a corner...

If you have a 5.25" drive bay available, hang the HDD on rubberbands inside it.

I actually hung it on four rubber ribbons, each fastened to the HDD with one of the drive's screws. Can't remember how they were fastened to the bay. That's probably the best thing you can do to silence it while keeping airflow unobstructed. Also the drive remains in place if you turn the case around.

 

[Warigator]

I guess these days, instead of releasing 2x larger capacity hard drive, they release 10% larger capacity. Such are current times. At least it's not super ridiculously expensive.

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

I guess these days, instead of releasing 2x larger capacity hard drive, they release 10% larger capacity. Such are current times. At least it's not super ridiculously expensive.

Besides physical space constraints that always limit density, a lot of the product-ready development effort has been toward speed improvements -- HAMR, dual heads, etc.

 

[Bwaze]

I guess these days, instead of releasing 2x larger capacity hard drive, they release 10% larger capacity. Such are current times. At least it's not super ridiculously expensive.

HDD Sales Crater, Drop 35% Year-over-Year

Unit shipments of nearline drives suffer the most in the first quarter as exascalers remain cautious.

As far as PC and CE-oriented drives are concerned, their shipments totaled 23.3 to 24.7 million units, a decline of 24% - 33% depending on the exact segment. The 2.5-inch HDD segmented recorded a yet another major year-over year decline of 33%. This decrease highlights the ongoing trend of hard drives PC and CE market share declining, so this was not a particularly surprising thing.

 

[Warigator]

HDD Sales Crater, Drop 35% Year-over-Year

Unit shipments of nearline drives suffer the most in the first quarter as exascalers remain cautious.

As far as PC and CE-oriented drives are concerned, their shipments totaled 23.3 to 24.7 million units, a decline of 24% - 33% depending on the exact segment. The 2.5-inch HDD segmented recorded a yet another major year-over year decline of 33%. This decrease highlights the ongoing trend of hard drives PC and CE market share declining, so this was not a particularly surprising thing.

I guess some people have no problem fitting all their stuff into a 1 TB SSD. I had 1 TB HDD in 2009, so I find that weird personally.