[SOLVED] Are 14TB Ironwolfs ever going to ship to consumers?

[Furnis]

Hi. Has anyone before ordered hard drives that were just announced and priced? I just did for the first time, and that might have been a mistake... I ordered my Seagate 14TB Ironwolves in late September. They're likely not to arrive before February. That's over 4 months of waiting, if even then. My new NAS will soon run out of warranty before I can slap the first disks into it

I mean, has this been a trend previously, that consumers have to wait a full quarter for their drives after website reviews? Or is the HD shortage just exceptionally bad?

 

[fzabkar]

What I don't understand is why Seagate's marketing department doesn't do a better job of promoting their products.

Here is Seagate's product page for the IronWolf:
https://www.seagate.com/au/en/internal-hard-drives/hdd/ironwolf/

AIUI, these models are helium drives, but nowhere can I find mention of this. Kitguru, Anandtech and TweakTown all identify these drives as helium models.

However, this reviewer appears to have been misled:
https://www.storagereview.com/seagate_ironwolf_pro_14tb_nas_hdd_review

Seagate's page does highlight the drive's RV sensors, but IMHO the writer should also have made mention of the upgraded PCB protection via electronic fuses on each of the +5V and +12V supplies. These have a direct impact on data security and set the drive apart from lesser equipped models.

I also notice a bank of 15 capacitors. Do these provide backup during power loss events?

Another interesting aspect are the 4 differential pairs running between the MCU and the HDA connector. Normally a drive has two such pairs, a read channel and a write channel. ISTM that the extra pairs must provide improved data throughput, or improved servo tracking.

Here is a thread on the subject:
https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=37159&start=60

Perhaps seagate_surfer can enlighten us?