Dubbed the largest NAS optimized drive on today’s market, Seagate has announced their 8TB NAS HDD, allowing businesses to use both fewer drives and fewer costly enclosures. As such, the new 8TB drives are specifically built for tower enclosures with one to eight bays for upwards of 64TB in a single eight-bay desktop form factor. Seagate indicates that this gives small business the high capacity and flexibility they need in order to prepare for the future.
Dubbed the largest NAS optimized drive on today’s market, Seagate has announced their 8TB NAS HDD, allowing businesses to use both fewer drives and fewer costly enclosures. As such, the new 8TB drives are specifically built for tower enclosures with one to eight bays for upwards of 64TB in a single eight-bay desktop form factor. Seagate indicates that this gives small business the high capacity and flexibility they need in order to prepare for the future.
Seagate has optimized their NAS 8TB HDD for a broad range of NAS use cases such as backup and disaster recovery, print and file servers, multimedia storage, archiving, file sharing and virtualization. NAS manufacturers like ASUSTOR, QNAP, Synology and Thecus have also qualified the NAS HDD 8TB for compatibility in a number of their products.
Notable features include:
- 1TB, 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, 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 1M 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
Availability
The Seagate NAS HDD 8TB has already shipped to select customers; however, a wide-scale release is slated for the end of the current quarter.
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