
Seagate's IronWolf Pro drives continue to be my go-to choice when recommending the best NAS HDDs. I've used dozens of these drives over the course of the last decade, totaling over 120TB of storage. I'm yet to see an issue on any of the drives, and even after 40,000 hours of continuous use, these drives have proven to be reliable.
IronWolf Pro start at 2TB, and now they go all the way up to 30TB. That's made possible thanks to heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), a technology Seagate pioneered over the last five years. It's exciting to see these drives now becoming available, and I tested the IronWolf Pro 30TB extensively.