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For the most accurate drive health measurements, it's usually best to go with a diagnostic software directly from the manufacturer. In the event of trying to RMA (replace drive under warranty), most manufacturers will typically require you test with their own software anyways. The good news is...

Hello Sarra. Take a look at our Hybrid FireCuda drives. They come in various storage sizes (Including 1TB) but not in a 250 GB presentation however we believe they would suffice your needs. These drives drives combine the latest NAND flash technology with a traditional hard drive for a compact...

Hello B00nie, sorry that your SSHD has encountered problems. What was the problem the drive gave you?

Now that is kinda nifty, don't really see that much. Thanks for sharing!

Hello shadoworld. The BarraCuda is a drive that fits your criteria. It comes in several sizes and is backed by a two year warranty. There is even a link to find a retailer. We thank you for considering Seagate no matter what brand you choose to purchase.

As far as the actual drives storing the data, we do offer a line of drives specifically engineered for surveillance footage uses like DVR, NVR, & CCTV called the SkyHawk & SkyHawk AI. They come with firmware (dubbed ImagePerfect) which prioritizes writes most of the time to preserve picture...

If you're worried about the health on the drive and would like to either get peace of mind or pinpoint a problem, it would be a good idea to grab our free diagnostic software SeaTools and run a long generic test on the drive. If everything comes back clean, then you should be in good shape.

Where you've got multiple drives you're looking to use externally, you may want to actually look at what is known as a "toaster" or an external dock which can slot multiple hard drives. As far as why not just lay an internal drive on the desk and use it that way, well one thought which comes to...

Hello psnco. Thank you for considering Seagate. Our FireCuda drives are made for gaming as they meld the latest NAND flash technology with a traditional hard drive for a compact blend of capacity and speeds up to 5× faster than typical hard drives. This means that games and cut scenes load...

Thanks for the feedback! We do have other colors in the smaller capacities, but you're right, currently the only 8TB hub version of Game Drive is white to match the white Xbox One aesthetic. We will take your feedback to the team. Cheers & game on!

Hello FortTaylor. If you have not done so yet, you may format the Seagate drives following these instructions from our knowledge base.

We do have a limited edition external Far Cry 5 Game Drive for PS4 which doesn't come with the Far Cry game itself, but does come with some exclusive DLC for the game (Hours of Darkness missions). Just thought we'd mention it in case anyone wanted to take a look.

Hello FortTaylor. What brand are your hard drives?

Glad to see this was resolved by the great community support. If anyone else stumbles on here with similar issues, a good first couple of steps for troubleshooting a hard drive are: Try a different cable Try a different port Try a different computer/device Here is a resource on...

Hi Format_C: ! Seagate here. Our recommendation is to use our free Seatools Software as it is designed to specifically diagnose our HDD’s as we do not publish drive attributes or thresholds that may give a different readings from third party diagnostics. Our Knowledge Base article goes more in...

RAID is not, in-and-of itself, a backup. RAID is for preventing the need to take your system offline in the event of a drive failure. Imagine you are running a server which handles credit card transactions for a website, you don't want the chance of a hard drive crashing causing that server to...

Providing value and clarification is a big part of the reason our forums team was brought on and developed. We are striving to help put users in touch with info and resources wherever possible and be an asset to these online communities. Part of what our team does is to provide information to...

Hi SamuralinBlack! Seagate here. Take a look at the Barracuda Pro. It is made for just what you are looking for and there are several models available that suit your needs. These drives come with 5 years warranty, 2 free years of rescue service, large cache so you may load your applications...

Hello mda! Seagate here. We just wanted to throw this your way. Nytro SAS 12Gb/s and Nytro SATA 6Gb/s. Take a look and see if this helps you out.

Personally if it were me, less headache in just having one large volume, especially where gains of multiple volumes aren't a very big "thing". There's an interesting discussion which took place over on the Synology forums about this. It may help you get a better idea of what you want to do...

Hello Crazy Chuckster! Seagate here. We just wanted to point out a benefit of pairing IronWolf HDD’s with Synology for IronWolf Health Management. This will provide extra security and peace of mind for your customer. We hope this helps you independently of what you choose.

Hi SickBeast! Seagate here. Try to keep between 10% to 20% free on a drive. The closer you get to maximum capacity you will start experiencing sluggishness in the read/write and potentially other problems may arise like fragmentation of data. (more of an issue with HDDs than SSDs)

Hello nilepez! Seagate here. Seagate offers two drives that may be what you are looking for in the IronWolf and the IronWolf Pro. When you pair a IronWolf drive with compatible Synology, you gain in depth monitoring which is called IronWolf Health Management. You can read more about Health...

Hello ChRoNo16! Seagate here. SSD’s by their very nature don't have a file structure as they are a group of flash memories. Defragmenting an SSD will just shorten the drive's lifespan and does not have an effect on its performance. There is an optimization technique that replaces defragmentation...

Hi mhd! Seagate here. We are sorry to hear you may be experiencing some trouble with your drive. As you may have already run Seatools to diagnose your hard drive, we just want to make sure you have run the long generic test which will scan every sector of the drive. This might take a while...

Hi LaAaZ,! Seagate here. We are sorry to hear you're experiencing some trouble with your drive. Definitely do not try to do too much with the drive yourself if it's making any sort of clicking noise. When when this happens, every time the drive is powered up, it could put any recoverable data...

A lot of users prefer to combine a small SSD for their OS/important applications/programs with a larger HDD for their secondary storage wherever possible, however hybrids (current Seagate branding: FireCuda) do have their space/reasons for buying. For instance, if you have a laptop with only one...

Sorry to hear about your experience here, losing data is never fun. If you would like to check into any potential warranty on the drive, you can use our Warranty Validation Tool. The best way to protect yourself against hard drive failure (and expensive professional data recovery labs) is a...

If you'd like, you can check out the tech specs yourself: HAMR Technology. Also, to clarify: HAMR has been a long time in the making. We have been working on it since the late 90's, we have thousands of HAMR drives already being manufactured with a solidly in place supply chain, and all of the...

Backblaze has admirably maintained over the years a desire to keep their subscription service costs low for their customers, and in the past that has resulted in them using large amounts of consumer drives as stated. It is important to note their current and future plans, however, which do...

You should verify with Netgear before using any drives in their NAS enclosures, the biggest risks are 1. The drives may not have the slots/screwholes line up the same as the enclosure trays. 2. It says prominently at the top of their drive compatibility page that "WARNING: NETGEAR Support can...

Regardless of which brand you go with, you definitely want to have hard drives branded for NAS use, which are rated to handle the intensive vibration and workload of a NAS or server environment. Normal desktop hard drives, for example our BarraCuda, are not rated to work in large enclosures with...

IDT did a study/analysis of data trends (Data Age 2025) and is estimating by the year 2025, worldwide data creation will grow to an eye-popping 163 zetabytes. This is 10 times the amount of data being produced in 2017. Managing the exponential and explosive growth of storage is likely going to...

We always advocate with ANY storage, especially if you're nervous about the health of the drive (really it should always be done regardless) just make sure and back up any important data in order to protect yourself. The go-to strategy is the 3-2-1 method: Have 3 copies of your data, stored on...

Seagate has a free diagnostic utility called SeaTools. What you will want to do is download that and run the Long Generic test, it takes awhile to run as the name suggests, but this is the test that will test ALL sectors of the drive, other tests will choose sectors to test at random, which lets...

Typically, manufacturers have compatibility lists on their websites, so in all likelihood your router has one, may want to take a look at that. Sometimes ones not specifically mentioned on compatibility lists will work more or less, but, depending on the company, sometimes using stuff not on...

takeawaydave since you are using a RAID setup, we would definitely recommend buying a NAS drive. As long as you buy a HDD from a current hard drive series, you are good to go and can compare NAS-HDDs from any vendor in regards to price and specific details. NAS drives differ from desktop...

Hi revv, if you are on a budget, you could look at something like our Personal Cloud to meet your needs. This is basically a "mini-NAS" and comes as a complete package with hard drive(s) already included. Additionally, you'll get a lot of basic features a NAS offers - most important online...

The cache is correct for the reasons another user already replied with, this is one reason it's likely to be just a little faster. Another is just that a newer version of the drive equals newer, updated firmware/technology that helps optimize the drive a bit. The tech world is like living in a...

When we say current model lineup, we don't mean drives in the same document, those documents are grouped by drives with the same overall specs. The current model lineup for BarraCuda 3.5" drives consists of models which have not been EOL (End-of-Life)'ed by another, more updated model yet: 4TB...