Seagate HDDs for Enterprise NAS Up to 6TB

Seagate Technology plc announced its Enterprise NAS HDD – a high capacity drive targeting businesses seeking to optimize their computing for performance and reliability using NAS systems.

With enterprise reliability and NAS optimized performance in up to 16 bays, the NAS drive is available in capacities up to 6TB, and is designed to perform at high levels under demanding workloads and in environments that call for global availability and 24×7 accessibility.

“As the industry moves deeper into the cloud era, all businesses need solutions that enable applications to be accessed anywhere at any time,” said Scott Horn, VP marketing, Seagate. “With our portfolio of NAS products, we can effectively target the needs of all types of businesses and scale with them as they grow in size. These drives are tailored to the requirements of businesses, ensuring customers have choices so they are only paying for the features they need.“

Available in 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6TB capacities, Enterprise NAS HDD can deliver up to 96TBs in one 16-bay rackmount or tower form factor. With a 50% capacity advantage over competitive offerings, the 6TB drive delivers high capacity. Using RV sensor technology, its can also sustain performance streaming and random R/W workloads for growing business data needs, intrinsically adjusting and compensating based on usage.

“QNAP constantly strives to provide business users with reliable and scalable NAS solutions for storage, backup, iSCSI and virtualization applications, and many other practical business applications,” said Meiji Chang, GM, QNAP Systems, Inc. “Seagate’s Enterprise NAS HDD allows us to deliver a compelling and cost-effective NAS offering that meets the capacity, performance, availability and reliability requirements of our end customers.“

In the event of a failure, be it environmental, human error, or accident, the Enterprise NAS HDD is supported by Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery plans (optional), which provide end-to-end protection enabling data recovery with more than a 90% success rate. The plans also cover NAS HDDs targeting the SOHO and prosumer NAS market and surveillance HDDs targeting video surveillance systems.

Enterprise NAS HDD key features include: