IronWolf Health Management
Reinforce your QNAP NAS with Seagate’s IronWolf Health Management
Seagate®’s IronWolf Health Management (IHM) (available in select QNAP NAS) helps to continuously safeguard the health of your data. When using supported IronWolf™ or IronWolf Pro hard drives, the overall system reliability is improved by providing users with actionable prevention, intervention, and recovery options.
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Prevention
IHM monitors your system environment and provides suitable preventative actions to secure your data.
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Intervention
Avoid catastrophic data loss by allowing IronWolf Health Management to analyze hundreds of parameters, recommending backup as needed.
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Recovery
If a failure occurs, you have access to IHM’s Rescue Data Recovery Service (2-year service included with IronWolf Pro). IHM provides easy access to IHM’s Rescue Data Recovery Service through QNAP NAS.
Important messages at a glance
IronWolf Health Management keeps records of conditions such as temperature, shock, vibration, intermittent connections and signal integrity. You can check drive information, health status and Rescue Plan coverage all in the same window to attain greater peace of mind.
Run scheduled daily analysis to ensure the highest availability
IHM has adaptive algorithms that monitor critical drive and health parameters related to data transfer, performance, readability, writability and overall reliability. A daily analysis can be scheduled for your IronWolf/IronWolf Pro drives to check their statuses. Reports are saved to the designated shared folder for subsequent review and checkup.
Comparison: IHM & S.M.A.R.T.
| S.M.A.R.T. | IronWolf Health Management |
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| Monitors 20 drive parameters | Monitors over 200 drive parameters that may influence drive health |
| Reports Pass or Fail status | Notifies users of possible prevention and intervention actions ahead of a fail event, thereby reducing the possibility of catastrophic failure and associated data loss |
| Reports the end impact to drives by monitoring 20 drive parameters with fixed thresholds | Reports the end impact to drive and communicates failure mode through output code (for interpretation by Seagate Customer Care only) |
| Has no memory of past trends of thresholds being exceeded | Maintains a moving window of parametric data for trend analysis and assesses impact of external stresses over the drive life |
NAS System Requirements
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CPU architecture |
x86-based or ARM-based (64-bit) |
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QTS Version |
4.3.5 (or later) |
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QuTS hero Version |
h 4.5.0 (or later) |
*Please check NAS product specification for more details.
*Different versions of Ironwolf Health Management (IHM) may support different Ironwolf™ hard drive models.
