Seagate Launches Highest-Capacity NAS HDD for Small Business, Personal Cloud & Multimedia Storage
January 12 2016 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
Helping Professionals Address Increasingly
Complex Data Challenges
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in storage
solutions, today announced the launch of the Seagate® NAS HDD 8TB,
the world’s highest-capacity drive optimized for RAID,
Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and server storage. These reliable,
scalable drives address the ever-growing data challenges for the
Small- and Medium-sized Businesses (SMB), Small Office/Home Office
(SOHO) and creative professional segments.
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The Seagate NAS HDD 8TB is the largest NAS optimized drive on
the market. That means businesses will require fewer drives—and
subsequently fewer expensive enclosures—to meet their data storage
needs. The new 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 high 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, general manager of
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
4.4 zettabytesi. Seagate’s own researchii has revealed that SMBs in
particular are choosing NAS solutions over other storage
technologies such as storage area networks (SAN) and direct
attached storage (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 at Synology Inc, a
leading 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.”
The new Seagate NAS 8TB HDD is optimized for a diverse set of
NAS use cases including backup and disaster recovery, print and
file servers, multimedia storage, archiving, file sharing and
virtualization. In addition, industry-leading NAS manufacturers
including ASUSTOR, QNAP, Synology and Thecus have qualified the NAS
HDD 8TB for compatibility in a number of their products.
The new drive includes:
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, & 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 new Seagate NAS HDD 8TB has shipped to select customers,
with wide-scale availability at the end of the current quarter.
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change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. When
referring to drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one
billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one thousand billion
bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use a different
standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In addition,
some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other
functions and will not be available for data storage.
i IDC White Paper, The Digital Universe of Opportunities: Rich
Data and the Increasing Value of the Internet of Things, April
2014
ii Seagate NAS Box and Drive User Study: Q1 2015
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