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:

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.

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
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:

Specifications
Capacity	2TB	1TB	500GB
Standard Model	ZP2000NM30002	ZP1000NM30002	ZP500NM30002
Features
Interface	PCIe Gen4 ×4, NVMe 1.3	PCIe Gen4 ×4, NVMe 1.3	PCIe Gen4 ×4, NVMe 1.3
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
Random Write (Max, IOPS) Sustained, 4KB QD2562	19,500	19,500	10,800
Performance (PCIe Gen4 x4)
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
Performance (PCIe Gen3 x4)
Sequential Read (Max, MB/s) FOB, 128KB QD321	3400	3400	3400
Sequential Write (Max, MB/s) FOB, 128KB QD321	3200	3200	2500
Random Read (Max, IOPS) FOB, 4KB QD32 T81	640,000	640,000	420,000
Random Write (Max, IOPS) FOB, 4KB QD32 T81	565,000	565,000	550,000
Sequential Read (Max, MB/s) Sustained, 128KB QD322	3300	3300	3250
Sequential Write (Max, MB/s) Sustained, 128KB QD322	965	965	525
Endurance/Reliability
Total Bytes Written (TB)	2,800	1,400	700
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read	1 per 10E16	1 per 10E16	1 per 10E16
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours)	1,800,000	1,800,000	1,800,000
Rescue Data Recovery Services (years)3	3	3	3
Warranty, Limited (years)	5	5	5
Power Management
Power Supply	3.3V	3.3V	3.3V
Active Max Average Power (W)	6.5	6.5	5.6
Average Idle Power (W)	30	20	20
Environmental
Temperature, Operating Internal(°C)	0°C – 70°C	0°C – 70°C	0°C – 70°C
Temperature, Nonoperating (°C)	-40°C – 85°C	-40°C – 85°C	-40°C – 85°C
Shock, 0.5ms (Gs)	1500	1500	1500
Physical
Height (in/mm, max)	0.945in/24mm	0.945in/24mm	0.945in/24mm
Width (in/mm, max)	4.291in/109mm	4.291in/109mm	4.291in/109mm
Depth (in/mm, max)	6.102in/155mm	6.102in/155mm	6.102in/155mm
Weight (lb/g)	0.139lb/0.063kg	0.139lb/0.063kg	0.139lb/0.063kg
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)