Wolf vs Red, Hawk vs Purple?

[Elixer]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10496...s-10tb-hdd-portfolio-brings-helium-mainstream

Seems Seagates new NAS drives are called IronWolf, and their Surveillance drives are called SkyHawk.

The IronWolf series is focused on hard drives for the NAS segment, currently served by vendors such as Synology and QNAP. One of the most interesting aspects of the IronWolf series is the integration of a rotational vibration sensor in the high-capacity models. This has traditionally been restricted to enterprise NAS drives, and it is a welcome feature. Seagate markets their NAS-optimized firmware under the AgileArray moniker. It includes drive balancing features (vibration dampening hardware control and RV sensor handling) as well as RAID-related features such as TLER (time-limited error recovery) configurations to avoid drives erroneously dropping out of arrays etc. It also includes specific power management features such as optimized spin-down / standby / sleep entry.

The SkyHawk series will be addressing this market with firmware optimized for video stream recording (ATA streaming extensions support for up to 64HD cameras) and 24x7 operation. The workload rating is similar to the IronWolf series at 180TB/yr. The firmware also enables quick time-to-record when coming out of idle - something essential for scenarios where recording is triggered only when motion is detected. Helium-based drives also enable low power consumption and lowered heat dissipation requirements.

On one hand, I think WD's naming scheme is poor.
On the other hand, seagate's scheme isn't much better.

 

[Soulkeeper]

I miss the days when things were simple and we only had 2 options: consumer or enterprise.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I miss the days when things were simple and we only had 2 options: consumer or enterprise.

I miss the days back before the drive firmware was crippled in various ways, just for product diversity's sake.