Another 3.5" NAS drive on sale that's $30.25 cheaper than last time it was posted. As with all Ironwolf HDDs these are CMR, 7200rpm, 256MB cache and this drive specifically is helium filled instead of air.
If you're after smaller capacities you can grab the 8TB for $250.75 or the 4TB for 114.66. If you're after a NAS then the Synology DS920+ 4 Bay for $713.15 is a bargain.
https://www.seagate.com/au/en/products/nas-drives/ironwolf-h…
10TB Helium model number is ST10000VN0008 (this deal), while the 10TB Air model number is ST10000VN000.
Helium means cooler use for NAS?
Helium drives will use less energy so they're more quiet and run a bit cooler.
Helium slowly escapes meaning the life of the disk is limited, a normal mechanical disk can last 10 years, but a helium i wouldn't trust after 5 years.
They have some benefits though, run quieter and less heat, better for nas use or places with little cooling.
As long as you backup your data its fine.
If the helium leaks out, won't it just get replaced by air like in the 'normal' drives? I don't understand why a conventional drive would last longer.
Helium disks are specifically made to work with helium, if you replace helium with air, the heads will stop working and the disk will fail otherwise why would helium disks even exist.
Ah didn't know helium reduces reliability of the drive? So it's a trade off for being quieter and cooler but dies earlier?
Helium gas atoms are incredibly small and they leak easily out of containers. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/84mqiq/serious… and they can also diffuse through solid metal
Because of that helium gas tends to just leak out of whatever you put them in, not just your party balloons, but surprisingly also out of hermetically sealed chambers of hard drives. I believe Seagate's enterprise grade hard drives have a sensor inside them that can detect when the atmosphere inside the chamber is out of spec.
How quickly they leak out is anyone's guess, I don't think we have enough data to conclude that a helium filled drive is "bad" after 5 years. It could be more or less depending on how tight the tolerances are when the drive was manufactured.
@scrimshaw: Ah I see, thanks for your long explanation. Now I am worried about using helium for my desktop drive but I guess it things are backed up it should be ok.
I was thinking of this instead of the WD blue as desktop drive as I thought this would be more reliable.
@scrimshaw: Oh no! I shucked some 10 TB helium drives few years ago for my NAS. Should I be concerned?
@vash12: No. Just run HDD diagnostic tools (like Seagate's own SeaTools) every once in a while just to check the health.
And have a good backup contingency plan. See "3-2-1 rule".
No love for 6tb? :) :(
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Do you have a source for the helium part?
I can only find information on the IronWolf Pros being Helium filled.