One of the six drives ended up failing within the one year warranty period, and a second drive caused TrueNAS Core to report that it was slowing down the already abysmally slow volume. Despite being in a 6-drive RAID-Z2 configuration, these drives performed worse than an old SD card and rarely exceeded 45MB/s from the entire 6-drive array. The previous drives (8TB HGST SAS) would deliver 550MB/s consistently in the same configuration. I've learned my lesson to continue steering clear of Seagate and stick with WD. I should have trusted the Backblaze failure rate numbers showing that Seagate has drives die at orders of magnitude higher rates than their peers.
This drive is fast and quiet. Something I can definitely can get used to.
And power savings. Yes, let’s bring up the fact this drive replaces four 4TB drives and I am seeing my electricity usage decrease. Only 5 more and I can power off my remaining 4TB drives. They can always be there for a cold backup which I can do once a week on Saturdays.
arrived quickly and very well packaged. Installation was easy, added 16.7 TB of usable drive space to wife's content creation workstation and completely relieved her need for a NAS.