Seagate Giveaway: IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD

[seagate_surfer]

For all you NAS enthusiasts out there, Seagate is giving away a IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD to the TechPowerUp community.


It is really easy to participate, all you need to do is comment on this post by answering this question below:


I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because _______?

The winner will be chosen from all participants who answer the question above in the correct format.​

The giveaway will run from February 3, 2021 to February 17, 2021 and the winner will be selected by the answer they give and voted on by a panel. The winner will be contacted by private message and then communicated on this post. The drive will be shipped by Seagate directly to the winner.

Giveaway open worldwide where applicable.

Best of luck all and looking forward to all those great responses.

 

[kayjay010101]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because my unraid cache is full all the time!

 

[Steve-007UK]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because 1.2TB is not enough for all my music and games!

 

[aw1983]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I need a reliable drive to store all my works and data.

 

[velko-live]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I have 300 GB old HDD and I'm sure I can't afford to buy one in soon Bulgaria!

 

[kapone32]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because _______my Seagate Firecuda 520 needs a friend to keep up with it.

 

[pigulici]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because the storage space it is never enough...

 

[Toothless]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because i can pass down some of my SSDs to people who can't afford them.

 

[chr0nos]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because im backing up all my children photos and videos

 

[micropage7]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because i have installed 2 4TB Seagate Barracuda in my pc

 

[sepheronx]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I am running out of storage and cant really afford a new one anytime soon.

 

[MOJU]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because it would make my NAS "The IRON WOLF Constellation"

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[dorsetknob]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because _______? It would woop the ass of my 120 gig SSD

 

[iuliug]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because i am planning to build a raid 5 nas in the future?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because __I don't know what a NAS is or the actual form factor this item is 2.5" or M.2 so I must have one to find out _?

 

[MyTechAddiction]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I never had a SSD before
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[t0t0]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because it would be awesome to retire the small capacity, old and noisy hard disk drives of my actual (ZFS) mirror which houses the precious files of the whole family.

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p1 r368259

[root@nas ~]# zpool list
NAME    SIZE  ALLOC   FREE  CKPOINT  EXPANDSZ   FRAG    CAP  DEDUP  HEALTH  ALTROOT
zdata   149G   130G  19,5G        -         -    16%    86%  1.00x  ONLINE  -

[root@nas ~]# camcontrol devlist
<ST3160815AS 4.AAB> at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1)
<ST3160815AS 4.AAB> at scbus3 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass2)

The drives are (very) old but still strong (regularly checked by smartctl and zpool scrub). I plan to upgrade if I can find something with a smaller footprint.

 

[Regeneration]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because my BarraCuda feels lonely in the bay

 

[mb194dc]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I had two Cheetah 15k.7 drives fail simultaneously in a raid 1 array last year and this can be the yin to that yang!?

 

[JrRacinFan]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because it would be an upgrade from my Seagate 1TB SSHD

 

[newtekie1]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because the 256GB SSD in my file server is full.

 

[Durvelle27]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I need more storage for my renders and designs that benefit from faster drives

 

[Grom0X]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because my 250GB SSD is full!

 

[PurSpyk!!]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because I got retrenched last year and working from home is not easy with old hardware, this would make things so much better, thanks

 

[Tomgang]

I need the Seagate IronWolf 125 960 GB SSD because the hard drive in my nas died a few weeks a go and a SSD would be a great upgrade over a hard drive.