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I can only speak about the Exos drives, but the Ironwolf (Pro) drives are basically just the Exos drives relabeled for the consumer market. I'm actually about to buy 6 14TB Exos x16 drives to replace 7 6TB Exos 7E8 drives that are 5 years old. Frequently you can get the Exos drives cheaper than Ironwolf anyway.

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> Frequently you can get the Exos drives cheaper than Ironwolf anyway.

You can. I’ve been getting the 16s and they are great but with caveats. The size makes volume creation and expansion insanely long (like a week per added drive). Not Seagate’s fault I know. The noise. They are loud. They are either chirping away or grinding away.

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