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For the longest time I ran a set of four Seagate Barracuda 7200.12's in my NAS here in the lab. These drives served me very well up until last year, when they were replaced by the purpose built WD Red NASWare drives. Now though Seagate has entered th...
Back in July of last year, Western Digital launched the first purpose built NAS hard drive, and for the longest time I was waiting for Seagate to do the same. Today this has come to fruition with the NAS HDD, offered in two, three and four TB capacit...
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The Seagate NAS HDD is a 3.5" form factor, 6Gb/s SATA interface hard drive that spins at 5,900RPM, ranges up to 4TB in capacity and is specifically engineered to be installed in one to five-bay NAS devices. With the consumer and small office NAS market gr...
Higher mixed workload and sequential throughput than WD Red, Greatest capacity in NAS HDD segment, Better latency consistency in mixed workloads than WD Red...
Back of the group random 4k max latency in write activity...
The Seagate NAS HDD comes in capacities up to 4TB and includes specially designed firmware that is engineered to deliver greater reliability and performance to provide consumers with assurance when they select drives with which to populate their new NAS...
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The Seagate NAS HDD 4TB is a more affordable alternative to the popular WD Red 4TB hard drive drive. The two models share much in common including NAS/RAID optimized firmware, a three year warranty, excellent acoustics and low power consumption.
The Seagate NAS HDD 4TB is another high capacity drive that puts performance on the back burner to achieve quiet, low vibration, and energy efficient operation. Its obvious competitor is the WD Red 4TB which offers many of the same features. The Red e...
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Considering the fact that network-attached storage (NAS) use is growing at an alarming rate, it didn't surprise us much last summer when WD released its NAS-bound “Red” series , but it did make us question, “what took so long?”A NAS-specific hard drive mi...
” section for products like Seagate's NAS HDD because it's just so straight-forward. Plus, it helps when products prove to be quite good, such as this one has. When choosing between hard drives for your NAS, I wholeheartedly recommend targeting models th...
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NAS storage is serious business, not just for the enterprise market, but also for personal and SOHO NAS. NAS for SOHO/Personal is HUGE! There's Synology, QNAP, Thecus, Drobo, Buffalo- even Seagate has their OWN NAS lineup.Considering that before WD RED ar...
Though it doesn't perform like a standard drive suitable to be paired with an OS for your primary use, but has all the near-enterprise functionality of a NAS good enough for SOHO use. Best part is that its able to keep up with WD Red 2TB version. Not b...
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As Western Digital found with its WD Red hard disk, there's a healthy interest in high-capacity hard disks you can use in a NAS drive . The Seagate NAS is the unimaginatively named product from Seagate that fills a gap in its range, a 3.5in SATA disk avai...
The Seagate NAS is a very quiet and low consumption hard-disk drive that looks ideal for desktop NAS and RAID use. It currently costs about the same as its competitor from WD, and while some benchmark tests suggested it has a slightly slower top speed, in...
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Product segmentation is a delicate art that tech companies have come to master. We see it in the semiconductor industry, where chip makers derive a range of products from the same base silicon. Clock speeds are tweaked, functional units are trimmed, and s...
Hard drive makers have been repurposing platters to serve different markets for as long as I can remember. NAS-specific consumer drives are relatively new additions, though. A couple of years ago, this particular class of low-power mechanical drive didn'...
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The Seagate Enterprise NAS HDD is a duty-specific drive available in capacities up to 6TB designed to meet the storage needs of small and midrange NAS environments ranging from smaller tower form factors to 16-bay rack units. The wide scope addresses a co...
Best-in-class overall performance, Available in a wide range of capacities including 6TB, 5-year warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Service plan (optional)...
Slips behind the Seagate NAS HDD in our CIFS 8k sequential benchmark...
With its focus on reliability, capacity, and great performance, the Seagate Enterprise NAD HDD is the best overall NAS HDD available, especially for multi-tenant NAS environments ranging from SMB to enterprise in scale. Seagate Enterprise NAS at AmazonDis...
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It is no secret that I am a storage junkie. Everyone that visits this site should have figured that out by now. With as much data as I store on my network(s), I am always on the hunt for a better hard drive to (over)populate my NAS and servers. Desktop dr...
As the drive landscape tries to redefine itself to compete with faster SSDs, it seems that more industry focused drives are inevitable. We have already seen a slew of drives designated for specific vertical markets within the storage sector leading to an...
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The Seagate Enterprise NAS is the company's purpose-built line of HDDs to address mid-range NAS, server and cloud storage use cases. For this review, we will be looking at the 8TB model, which is Seagate's most recent addition to the Enterprise portfolio...
Great overall performance, 5-year warranty and optional Rescue Data Recovery Service plan, Massive 8TB capacity as well as a wide range of smaller models...
Underwhelming results in a few categories (iSCSI 4K) and sometimes behind the 6TB...
Along with its fantastic performance and great reliability features, the 8TB Seagate Enterprise HDD offers businesses massive storage capacity, which helps to optimize both storage footprint and power consumption...
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As many of you know very well nowadays hard disk drive manufacturers are producing different models for different segments of the market so entry level models are designed for casual consumers, business/enterprise grade models are ment for enthusiasts and...
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.2 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Of The Charts Performance, 256MB Cache, 8TB's Capacity, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty...
Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To Other NAS Drives)...
When we reviewed the Enterprise NAS 6TB model a while back we were all impressed with both its performance results and the “reported” reliability numbers. I even recall thinking as to why Seagate would release a NAS oriented HDD model which...
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It's no secret that there are several storage choices out there for use with a desktop PC (or even a laptop) from the all-time classic regular mechanical drives up to the new solid state hybrid drives (HDD+SSD combo) and solid state drives. Things however...
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.2 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Of The Charts Performance, 6TB's Capacity, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty...
Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To The WD RED)...
It goes without saying that boosting such specs the Enterprise NAS HDD by Seagate is certainly not the most power efficient (green) NAS drive in the market but as you can clearly tell by our charts not only is it a lot faster compared to the...
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Hard drives continue to remain the storage medium of choice for applications where capacity and cost factors outweigh performance requirements. Vendors have also realized that enterprise hard drives are an overkill for some applications, but the recently...
For home consumers who are interested in stashing their media collection / smartphone-captured photos and videos and expect only four or five clients to simultaneously access the NAS, the lower power consumption as well as the price of the WD Red 6 TB is...
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