Seagate IronWolf Pro 6 TB Hard Drive Review

Conclusions

Hard disk drives made for network storage are supposed to be used in specific devices, that hold from one single drive (like the WD My Cloud) to a large amount of drives. The Seagate IronWolf Pro drives are aimed on entrerprise environments, in NAS units with up to 16 drives. Usually, enterprise network drives have more endurance and reliability than common desktop HDDs.
Because of this, some people prefer to use this kind of hard disk in small servers or even workstations, even considering they are usually more expensive than the desktop hard disk drives.
Comparing the Seagate IronWolf Pro 6 TB to one of its competitors, the WD Red Pro 5 TB  (which have been proved to be faster than a high-end desktop HDD), we see that the IronWolf Pro is faster in most benchmarks. It is probably due to its bigger cache and its smaller access time (which depends on mechanical characteristics of the drive).
In short, the Seagate IronWolf Pro 6 TB is a high performance hard disk drive, for NAS applications, small servers, and even for desktop computers, deserving our Golden Award.