Seagate IronWolf 525 M.2 Solid State Drives (SSD)
Perfect for creative pro, SOHO, and SME NAS
Overview:
Built for NAS, Seagate IronWolf 525 enables fast caching and tiered storage for best-in-class NAS performance. Designed with PCIe Gen 4 support and class-leading endurance and reliability, IronWolf 525 is the ideal choice for creative pros and businesses with demanding performance needs.
- Future-Proof Speed
IronWolf 525 boosts NAS caching and tiered storage solutions with PCIe Gen 4 speeds up to 5000MB/s while maintaining backward compatibility with PCIe Gen 3 systems. - Always On, Always Accessible
Designed to deliver performance in demanding 24x7 low latency, multi-user environments, enabling fast access to data any time, anywhere. - Built Tough
Endurance rating of 0.7 DWPD ensures robust performance in NAS and other intensive client workloads. - Class-Leading Reliability
Rated for 1.8M hours MTBF and includes a 5-year limited warranty for best-in-class total cost of ownership (TCO). - Purpose-Built Capacities
Choose from 500GB, 1TB and 2TB, ideal for primary storage or fast caching - IronWolf Health Management (IHM)
Actively monitor and protect your NAS data with error Prevention, Intervention and Recovery recommendations. - Data Recovery
Includes 3-year complimentary Rescue Data Recovery Services 4 in the event of accidental data corruption or drive damage
Best-Fit Applications
- Commercial and Entry-Level Enterprise NAS
- High performance Workstations and PCs
- U.2 to M.2 adapters for U.2 NVMe SSD drive bays
Features:
Amplify the Impact of Your Business’s Data
If your business relies on multiple users and an all-flash array system, tap into the power of an all-flash array NAS equipped with IronWolf 125 for sustained data rates up to 560MB/s and begin harnessing more data. For NAS capable of caching or tiered storage, combine the IronWolf 525 M.2 NVMe.
Go Hybrid With HDD Space and SSD Cache
If you want it all—fast caching, max capacity, incredible endurance and minimal cost—then it’s time to go hybrid. Thanks to an IronWolf portfolio that includes both HDDs and SSDs, you can easily take your compatible NAS system, such as the QNAP TVS-951X, to the heights of comprehensive performance.
Drive Health and Data Recovery
When integrated into compatible NAS systems, these drives provide overall system reliability increases due to IronWolf Health Management (IHM).
In addition, the IronWolf SSDs include a robust three year Rescue Data Recovery Services plan.
Optimized for NAS Storage or Cache
High-Capacity Storage: NAS with all 3.5-inch HDD
Enjoy a larger size, high capacity and a lower price point compared to SSD.
Hybrid of HDD and SSD Caching: NAS Combining
Get maximized capacity, minimal cost, and optimal size and performance.
Pure Performance: NAS with all 2.5-inch and M.2 SSDs
Expect smaller capacity and size at a higher cost with high density and 10GbE network performance.
IronWolf Health:
Keep Your Data In Good Shape
For all around well-being, you need prevention, intervention, and recovery.
IronWolf Health Management provides all these aspects of care for supported IronWolf and IronWolf Pro hard drives. Thanks to IHM, which operates in popular NAS operating systems, you can prevent external disturbances from affecting the NAS or drive health, proactively intervene and backup your data when the system notifies, and available industry leading rescue and recovery services should a catastrophic event occur.
Actively Protecting Your NAS
IronWolf Health Management (IHM) is designed to operate on enabled NAS systems, populated with supported Ironwolf SSD, Ironwolf HDDs, and Ironwolf Pro HDDs. IHM helps to improve the overall system reliability by showing prevention, intervention, and recovery options.
Prevention
Enjoy seamless, superior NAS experience as IronWolf Health monitors your system environment and offers preventative actions to secure your data. It keeps tabs on conditions such as temperature, shock, vibration, intermittent connections and signal integrity.
Intervention
Avoid catastrophic data loss events by allowing IronWolf Health to analyze hundreds of parameters, recommending backup as needed. IHM has adaptive algorithms that monitor critical drive and health parameters related to data transfer, performance, readability, writability and overall reliability.
Recovery
In the event of failure, rely on our Rescue Data Recovery Service (2-year service included with IronWolf Pro). IHM provides you easy access to it through the NAS OS.
Schedule. Review. Track.1
IHM is integrated within the NAS OS in which it allows you to schedule and review each result of the scan when you want to. The NAS OS will keep a log in which it will help track any trends and keep you well aware of how healthy your drive is based on the results of IHM.
Keep an Eye on Your Workload2
IronWolf Health Management allows you to keep an eye on your workload on compatible NAS. With workload charting you are able to see the data traffic with your NAS on a day by day basis, allowing further piece of mind knowing that IronWolf and IronWolf Pro is built tough to handle 24x7 always on use.
Error Codes and Suggestions
IronWolf Health provides a list of error codes and a suggestion on what you need to do to fix the issues. The chart below helps provides suggestions for each code.
| Output Code | Test Result | Suggested Actions to Fix the Issue |
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| 100 | Notification | Abnormally high operating temperature has been detected. Please ensure rear ventilation ports are not blocked, and try to lower the ambient temperature. |
| 101 | Notification | Connection issue on your NAS and hard drive interface has been detected. Please make sure the hard drive is properly installed in the chassis or drive tray, and that the tray is properly installed in your NAS. If issue persists, please contact the NAS Support Team. |
| 102 | Notification | Excessive physical shock to the hard drive has been detected. Please ensure your hard drive and NAS are placed on a stable surface. If issue persists, please contact the NAS Support Team. |
| 105 | Notification | Excessive vibration has been detected. Please ensure your NAS is placed on a stable surface. If issue persists, please contact the NAS Support Team. |
| 106 | Notification | Excessive host resets have been detected. Please ensure the hard drive is properly installed in the chassis or drive tray, and perform a power cycle. If issue persists, please contact the NAS Support Team. |
| >=200 | Warning | IHM has spotted some errors and a full SMART scan has been automatically triggered for your convenience. If the scan fails, please contact Seagate Customer Care. |
1 IronWolf Health Management features may vary from one NAS vendor to another. For further information, please refer to the vendor IHM manual
2 Workload charting is only available on compatible NAS. Please check NAS vendor for further details.
Specifications:
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Specifications |
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Capacity |
2TB |
1TB |
500GB |
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Standard Model |
ZP2000NM30002 |
ZP1000NM30002 |
ZP500NM30002 |
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Features |
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Interface |
PCIe Gen4 ×4, NVMe 1.3 |
PCIe Gen4 ×4, NVMe 1.3 |
PCIe Gen4 ×4, NVMe 1.3 |
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NAND Flash Type |
3D TLC |
3D TLC |
3D TLC |
Form Factor |
M.2 2280-D2 |
M.2 2280-D2 |
M.2 2280-D2 |
Random Read (Max, IOPS) Sustained, 4KB QD2562 |
425,000 |
445,000 |
230,000 |
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Random Write (Max, IOPS) Sustained, 4KB QD2562 |
19,500 |
19,500 |
10,800 |
Performance (PCIe Gen4 x4) |
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Sequential Read (Max, MB/s) FOB, 128KB QD321 |
5000 | 5000 | 5000 |
Sequential Write (Max, MB/s) FOB, 128KB QD321 |
4400 | 4400 | 2500 |
Random Read (Max, IOPS) FOB, 4KB QD32 T81 |
740,000 | 760,000 | 420,000 |
Random Write (Max, IOPS) FOB, 4KB QD32 T81 |
700,000 | 700,000 | 630,000 |
Sequential Read (Max, MB/s) Sustained, 128KB QD322 |
4300 | 4350 | 3300 |
Sequential Write (Max, MB/s) Sustained, 128KB QD322 |
965 | 965 | 525 |
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Performance (PCIe Gen3 x4) |
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Sequential Read (Max, MB/s) FOB, 128KB QD321 |
3400 | 3400 | 3400 |
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Sequential Write (Max, MB/s) FOB, 128KB QD321 |
3200 | 3200 | 2500 |
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Random Read (Max, IOPS) FOB, 4KB QD32 T81 |
640,000 | 640,000 | 420,000 |
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Random Write (Max, IOPS) FOB, 4KB QD32 T81 |
565,000 | 565,000 | 550,000 |
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Sequential Read (Max, MB/s) Sustained, 128KB QD322 |
3300 | 3300 | 3250 |
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Sequential Write (Max, MB/s) Sustained, 128KB QD322 |
965 | 965 | 525 |
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Endurance/Reliability |
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Total Bytes Written (TB) |
2,800 |
1,400 |
700 |
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Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read |
1 per 10E16 | 1 per 10E16 | 1 per 10E16 |
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Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours) |
1,800,000 | 1,800,000 | 1,800,000 |
Rescue Data Recovery Services (years)3 |
3 | 3 | 3 |
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Warranty, Limited (years) |
5 | 5 | 5 |
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Power Management |
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Power Supply |
3.3V |
3.3V |
3.3V |
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Active Max Average Power (W) |
6.5 |
6.5 |
5.6 |
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Average Idle Power (W) |
30 |
20 |
20 |
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Environmental |
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Temperature, Operating Internal(°C) |
0°C – 70°C |
0°C – 70°C |
0°C – 70°C |
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Temperature, Nonoperating (°C) |
-40°C – 85°C |
-40°C – 85°C |
-40°C – 85°C |
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Shock, 0.5ms (Gs) |
1500 |
1500 |
1500 |
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Physical |
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Height (in/mm, max) |
0.945in/24mm |
0.945in/24mm |
0.945in/24mm |
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Width (in/mm, max) |
4.291in/109mm |
4.291in/109mm |
4.291in/109mm |
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Depth (in/mm, max) |
6.102in/155mm |
6.102in/155mm |
6.102in/155mm |
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Weight (lb/g) |
0.139lb/0.063kg |
0.139lb/0.063kg |
0.139lb/0.063kg |
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Carton Unit Quantity |
10 |
10 |
10 |
1 Fresh Out of Box (FOB) performance of newly formatted drive measured with CrystalDiskMark v.8.0.1 ×64 on Windows 10 host. Performance may vary based on SSD firmware version, system hardware, and
configuration.
2 Sustained performance measured with FIO on Linux host. Performance is based on testing under certain workload conditions and may vary based on SSD firmware version, system hardware, and configuration.
3 Rescue Data Recovery Services not available in all countries. Contact your Seagate sales representative for further details.
Documentation:
Download the Seagate IronWolf 525 M.2 SSD Datasheet (.PDF)