Batu69 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 A NAS state of mind SEAGATE HAS announced the release of its largest-capacity NAS HDD drive so far, clocking in at 8TB. The drive is aimed at small businesses, personal cloud and multimedia storage, and reflects Seagate's ongoing commitment to the SMB market. The result is a drive that can form the backbone of a 64TB eight-bay enclosure. The drive has a 180TB/year workload rate limit which is the largest in this category of NAS drive. In terms of stability, it has a minimum time between failure of a million hours. Each disk is guaranteed for three years, and an optional Rescue Data Recovery service is available to prevent loss. The Seagate NAS HDD range tops out at 8TB, but is also available in 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB and 6TB capacities. Two major NAS manufacturers have already praised the new drive. QNAP's David Chaing said: "The new Seagate NAS HDD 8TB will offer professionals a huge capacity with which to easily manage this growing amount of data.” Synology's Chad Chaing added: "The new Seagate 8TB drives will give our customers incredible capacity to handle the huge volumes of data their users are creating and sharing.” In addition to this, Seagate already offers a range of desktop NAS devices powered by the firm's Linux-based operating system. Seagate has released research showing that SMBs opt for NAS solutions over alternatives such as storage area networks and direct attached storage, and that 18 percent do so for reasons of price, 16 percent for ease of use and 10 percent for quality. Prices and availability have yet to be released, but the drive has already been tested for backup and disaster recovery, print and file servers, multimedia storage, archiving, file sharing and virtualisation. NAS manufacturers including ASUSTOR, QNAP, Synology and Thecus have already qualified the drive for compatibility with their products. Seagate announced last summer that the firm will kill off its Wulua cloud service. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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