Friday, April 7, 2017

Seagate Hard Disk ability IronWolf Pro 8TB

The rapid advancement of technology and digital data, the size of data being produced even greater. And of course the required storage media is also getting bigger.

Hi-end computer series is now averaging already provides the hard disk with a capacity of 1TB. Do you remember that 10 years ago a computer with a hard disk size of 250GB is already classified as a luxury?

The present generation may not be able to imagine that the computer was used to only run with a floppy disk, or better known as floppy disks, with a capacity of not more than 3MB. The size of that in today is no longer enough to keep even the selfie photographs taken with a camera phone.

As well as a variety of other data. Starting from the jobs data, presentations, images, programs, video, the larger size. No wonder various leading hard disk manufacturers are competing to make large-sized hard disk.

Hard Disk is identical for storage. However, the fact that must be considered not only this. Read and write speed of the hard drive also determines the speed you to save and copy data, open the program, and even start the operating system.

The worse the ability to read and write from a hard disk of your computer will also be more "slow".

Seagate IronWolf Pro 8TB

This time Kompas.com get a chance to try the product hard disk from Seagate, which IronWolf Pro with 8TB capacity with QNAP NAS Drive. Series "iron wolf" who claimed to be a gang leader in this designation is more targeted for network-attached storage system (NAS), or storage attached to the center of the business network.

With speed, agility, and its size is very large, the hard disk is created with the aim to optimize the performance of companies and professionals in the field of creative in arranging valuable data traffic is very large, and can be used backup data from multiple computers.

Specification
Berdasarkah manuals, specifications are IronWolf Pro 8TB internal hard disk type (3.5 inches) with a capacity of 8TB SATA interface. For its own capacity IronWolf Pro selection available from 2TB to 10TB capacity. Rotation speed is 7,200 rpm with a cache is 256MB. IronWolf Pro can be used in the system of 1 to 16 bay NAS.

As for other features promised are AgileArray technology. AgileArray This is a set of hardware, firmware, and softawe from Seagate that focus on performance, reliability, and power management.

Technology AgileArray the start of a 24x7 continuous operation so that it can always be on and accessible at any time, workload rate up to 300TB per year, error recovery control which prevent the RAID drop off and accelerate the data retries, RV Sensors that provide consistent performance when many are accessing the data by reducing vibration in multi-bay, to the NAS power Management that make low electric power consumption.

The warranty provided is five years which includes features Seagate Rescue Data Recovery for two years.

Seagate Rescue Data Recovery is a service from Seagate to help you recover data lost due to damage caused perangkatbaik by mistake, an accident, even natural disasters. The success ratio is 90 percent.

performance
Using the application DiskMark, Kompas.com trying to speed read and write from IronWolf this 8TB. The result is the average speed of its write-amounting to 115.80 MB / s and an average read speed of its amounting to 156.86 MB / s.

Then use CrystalDiskInfo application, health status of this otherwise well IronWolf 8TB. The value of the attributes in the tests were wholly within the above limit values.

Test data transfer
In this trial, Kompas.com will perform tests to transfer data to the hard disk IronWolf Pro 8TB installed as Disk 1 with the status of the primary partition (drive letter G) which is directly connected to the motherboard. Not only that, the hard disk data transfer test is also on IronWolf Pro 8TB NAS connected to the computer via an ethernet cable (drive letter Z).

Data transfer up to 158GB consisting of 34 581 files and 3,427 folders. The data is transferred from the Disk 0 with the status of the primary partition (drive letter F).

 The result? the time required by IronWolf Pro 8TB on the F drive to write data as much as it was only about 30 minutes. Average speed figure was at 76 MB / s. Meanwhile, when the test is done to Seagate IronWolf Pro on drive Z, the time it takes is a little bit longer but differ only about 10 minutes. The average speed was stands at 60 MB / s.

However, when the data is transferred back to drive F. The time required turned out nearly twice as long, that is s

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