Prevention. Enjoy a seamless, superior NAS experience as IHM monitors your system environment and offers preventative actions to secure your data. Seagate's AgileArray technology is a suite of features designed to provide a better user experience. Here's how the company describes the features:

Drive balance with Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors - manages multi-bay vibration for long-term consistent performance and reliability The IronWolf’s write performance in AS SSD was 40MBps slower than the BarraCuda 10TB, but we’re still trying to understand the BarraCuda 12TB’s sudden drop in write speed. Take these numbers with a grain of salt. Seagate designed its AgileArray technology to provide a better user experience. Here's how the company describes the feature set: In the following section of this review, we will test 8 Seagate IronWolf 12TB HDDs performance in both iSCSI and CIFS configurations inside a Netgear 628x (RAID6).

In standard deviation, Seagate IronWolf posted its best read performance when configured in iSCSI with 464.47ms, while recording its best write performance in CIFS with 1,898.31. Results of iSCSI 4k average latency were more or less that same, with the IronWolf just behind its Pro brethren at 392.454ms while reads hit an average of 428.802ms. CIFS connectivity showed similar write performance (433.843ms), though read activity was more than double the latency (820.944ms). As data requirements continue to rapidly grow, so does the cost of managing storage through devices such as NAS solutions. This puts organizations in a tight spot, as their budgets don’t necessarily correlate with this massive growth, which is why new high-capacity releases like Seagate IronWolf 12TB is so attractive: it helps to lower the total cost of ownership and gives organizations the ability to and stay within and better manage their budgets. The company has also released a Pro version of the drive, reviewed here.

Seagate's IronWolf comes in eight different capacities, and that's not counting the IronWolf Pro lineup. Seagate only uses helium with the two highest capacities, while the 6TB to 12TB models are the only drives with a 7,200-RPM spindle speed. Those models also have the best UBER (uncorrectable bit error) rating. Rotational vibration (RV) sensors are the biggest dividing line for the IronWolf series. The 3TB, 2TB, and 1TB drives don't come with RV sensors, which can hamper performance in a large array. We're focusing on the 12TB IronWolf, but the 10TB model tags along for the review. Both share the same performance specifications. The four high-capacity 7,200-RPM models provide 210 MB/s of throughput. The remaining four drives deliver 180 MB/s of throughput due to their 5,400-RPM spindle speeds. Features It’s always exciting to see Seagate release a new product on the NAS market, as their previous releases have always been well-received, including the 10TB IronWolf model we reviewed almost a year ago. As such, 12TB IronWolf is the company’s highest capacity, performance-driven NAS HDD to date. Designed to excel in always on, always accessible 24/7 storage servers, the new IronWolf allows businesses to get the most out of their storage devices while being optimized for NAS environments with AgileArray, Seagate’s specific set of hardware, firmware and software features that promote the best possible NAS experience. The IronWolf HDD family is also equipped with dual-plane balancing and RAID optimization in multi-bay environments and offers enterprises with highly efficient and advanced power management capabilities.

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I also read the article twice, there are a bunch of affirmations that I completely disagree with, it's not even a different point of view, it's just a point of view based of presenting a situation and a reality in a given time (example Seagate increased product quality, but prices also shot up). It's always the same thing, prices go up to get the executives bigger bonuses, nothing else. That being said, there are fortunately other competitors in the market.