I have a lot of NAS drives in the house, and I put most of those to work. More than half of the 250TB of storage is in active use, and an overwhelming majority of those drives are Seagate's IronWolf. I have a mix of both IronWolf and IronWolf Pro drives, with sizes ranging from 6TB all the way to 18TB. I was just looking at the status of the IronWolf HDDs in the DiskStation DS1019+ — which I set up four years ago and has been running 24/7 — and noticed that these drives ticked over the 30,000-hour mark.
In all that time, the three drives have been faultless, and getting to that figure is an achievement in itself as I have this particular NAS housed in a rack server that doesn't have much in the way of active cooling. I've always recommended IronWolf drives because of their long-term reliability — I didn't have any issues with any of the 18 or so IronWolf HDDs I have in the house — so if you're looking to buy a NAS and need drives or want to increase the storage of your home server, IronWolf is a no-brainer recommendation.
