Seagate 8TB HDD for NAS Available at End of 1Q16

Seagate Technology plc announced the NAS HDD 8TB, an high-capacity drive optimized for RAID, NAS and server storage.

These reliable, scalable drives address the ever-growing data challenges for the SMBs, SOHO and creative professional segments.

The company’s NAS HDD 8TB is the largest NAS optimized drive on the market. That means businesses will require fewer drives – and subsequently fewer enclosures-to meet their storage needs. These 8TB drives are designed for tower enclosures with one to eight bays, delivering up to 64TB in a single eight-bay desktop form factor. This storage density gives small business the high capacity and flexibility to address the data challenges on the immediate horizon while preparing for the future.

“Our customers are finding themselves under more pressure than ever as the volume of data they need to deal with continues to increase dramatically,” said David Chiang, GM, business division, Qnap Systems, Inc. “Qnap is focused on delivering scalable and reliable NAS solutions to address these needs, giving users the confidence that their information is secure and available. The new Seagate NAS HDD 8TB will offer professionals a huge capacity with which to easily manage this growing amount of data.“

Data volumes continue to increase at an astounding rate, with IDC’s Digital Universe Study forecasting that the world’s annual data creation will increase by ten-fold between 2013 and 2020 to 44ZB⁽¹⁾. Company’s own research ⁽²⁾has revealed that SMBs in particular are choosing NAS solutions over other storage technologies such as SANs and DAS to help manage this looming surge in data. Of the people who preferred NAS, 18% do so because of price, 16% for ease-of-use and 10% for quality.

“Delivering the flexibility and access that users require is a constant challenge, especially in a world where there are more users with more devices expecting seamless access and flawless performance,” said Chad Chiang, product manager, Synology Inc., NAS solution provider. “NAS solutions are rapidly becoming the storage medium of choice for organizations with limited IT resources that need a quick and easy solution to manage their data. The new Seagate 8TB drives will give our customers incredible capacity to handle the huge volumes of data their users are creating and sharing.“

This NAS 8TB HDD is optimized for a diverse set of NAS use cases including backup and DR, print and file servers, multimedia storage, archiving, file sharing and virtualization. In addition, industry NAS manufacturers including Asustor Inc. , Qnap, Systems Inc., Synology, Inc. and Thecus Technology Corp. have qualified the NAS HDD 8TB for compatibility in a number of their products.

These drive includes:

1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8TB capacities
Suitability for 1- to 8-bay enclosures
180TB/year Workload Rate Limit (WRL) – the largest WRL for this category of NAS drive, offering businesses peace of mind that heavy workloads can be easily managed
MTBF of one Million hour-demonstrating mature robustness of the drive family
Three-year limited warranty-peace of mind from a reliable NAS HDD
One-of-kind optional three-year Rescue Data Recovery service to protect against potential data loss