Seagate IronWolf 8TB review: There are good reasons that Seagate is still selling this internal NAS drive, but none are its price
There are bound to be many people reading this review and wondering why something that should have been covered a decade ago has resurfaced on our site. And, it is true that Seagate launched the IronWolf 8TB model in 2016, hardware that is hardly considered current in 2026. But this review isn’t covering the mechanism that Seagate launched then, the ST8000VN0022, thankfully. Instead, it is the one that came after that in 2019, the ST8000VN004. For complete transparency, they released a newer option, the ST8000VN002, in 2021, but during my review, I’ll explain the differences and why you might want one over the other. OK, I accept that this model has been around for 8 years, almost, but we’re exceptionally busy here at Tech Radar Pro, and we get to things eventually. The fundamentals of the 8TB IronWolf have been remarkably stable across the past decade. Every generation has used CMR recording, ...