HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy: Here's how all the hard disks we've tested over the past couple of years ranked by performance.

[Admin]

We've tested over 20 different HDDs and ranked them in order of performance. Hard drives are more about capacity and price per GB these days, but it's also good to know where the various models stand in terms of raw throughput.

HDD Benchmarks Hierarchy: Here's how all the hard disks we've tested over the past couple of years ranked by performance. : Read more

 

[qwertymac93]

The EXOS x18 and x20 drives go on sale at places like B&H and Newegg regularly, they are great drives. We have many deployed in NAS and they perform noticably better than WD Red and Ironwolf drives, with a better warranty.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

The EXOS x18 and x20 drives go on sale at places like B&H and Newegg regularly, they are great drives. We have many deployed in NAS and they perform noticably better than WD Red and Ironwolf drives, with a better warranty.

Yeah, I wrote about the Exos X20 going on sale for $269 for Black Friday. It was about $80 cheaper than the next closest 20TB drive for a while. I don't think any other 20TB+ drive went below $300.

 

[thestryker]

I ended up getting WD Red Pro drives when building my latest server box. It was between them and the Exos as they were about the same price at the time, but every piece of reading I did mentioned how loud the Exos were and I was planning on putting the machine in my bedroom. The Exos drives are really good value and as capacities have gotten bigger their power consumption doesn't seem to have increased as much the consumer drives so they're closer together than they used to be.

Curse this year's sales as most HDDs didn't seem to drop at all really other than Exos.

 

[Winterson]

I am using the WD Red NAS drives and the Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives. The 7200 rpm ones run as much as 20 degrees hotter than the slower drives and with a NAS using a RAID array the data i/o is primarily a function of the NAS CPU and its operating system and the I/O of the drives.

 

[lordkaosny]

In the second to last paragraph, there's two references to a "Seagate Exos E20" drive. I think you meant the Exos X20 drive.

 

[ElDuderinito]

Any particular reason the Toshiba MG09 series was not tested? The MG09 18TB disk is a great disk for a very good price.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Any particular reason the Toshiba MG09 series was not tested? The MG09 18TB disk is a great disk for a very good price.

Toshiba didn't sample us the MG09. I'd assume it will be pretty similar to the N300 Pro or X300 Pro, though without testing we can't say for certain. Basically, companies only want to sample us newer model HDDs, and even getting those can be difficult.

 

[ElDuderinito]

Toshiba didn't sample us the MG09. I'd assume it will be pretty similar to the N300 Pro or X300 Pro, though without testing we can't say for certain. Basically, companies only want to sample us newer model HDDs, and even getting those can be difficult.

Ok, I see. I mentioned MG09 because this model is available. If it is about newer or the latest companies have, then I hope Toshiba advertises or makes their MG10 or MG11 models available for testing.

The differences from reading the specs are not that big. The MG series have a higher cache (depending on model) and higher MTBF.
Seems like MG is also more targeted for Enterprise. But for some reason they are cheaper. At least here in Germany.