Seagate Guardian Series of hard drives have each Guardian drive purpose-built for a specific application. Here is a quick summary of what each Guardian drive is optimized for ( and Exos drive comparison too which is Enterprise grade)
Guardian | Application | Description |
Seagate Exos | Servers, Enterprise applications, Data Center | Exos Drives are Enterprise drives, available with 5 years limited warranty and available in SATA and SAS interface. |
Seagate Ironwolf/Ironwolf Pro | Network Attached storage | Ironwolf and Ironwolf pro are Designed for Network Attached Storage. Ironwolf Pro have 5 years limited warrnaty ( in contrast to 3 years of Ironwolf) and also offer 2 years of Rescue ( Data Recovery ) services. |
Seagate Skyhawk/Skyhawk AI | Surveilalnce, Video, Smart Video Analytics | Skyhawk is available upto 8TB. From 10TB onwards there are only Skyhawk AI drives, optimized for extra streams of video reads, required for smart analytics. |
Seagate Firecuda | Gaming, performance | A Hybrid 2.5" HDD+ SSD that's optimized for performance. Popular with Gamers. |
Seagade Barracuda | Everyday Desktop | Barracuda Drives are for Everyday Computing in workstations and Desktops |