Huge capacity coming from Seagate! Seagate launching 8Tb hard drives for NAS market as well as for Small Business or Enthusiasts. You can achieve a huge capacity when using in a NAS device at home or for small company, but this large capacity might bring a drawback too – the RAID rebuild time.
Imagine having up to 54TB in a single eight-bay NAS (when configured for RAID5…. Pretty huge. But those drives shall be fairly resilient as they has been specially designed for NAS and RAID applications.
The drive has 6 plates with 1.33 Tb capacity each. It's a 7200 rpm model which allows maximum 216MB/s transfer rate and has 256 MB DRAM cache. The idle power is 7.2W where the average operating power is 9W, which isn't very high.
The 8Tb capacity is quite high. So far we had the WD 6Tb drives around since some time and few years back who would imagine that we will be having “monsters” like that? But Seagate will also provide other capacities in the same product line. In fact they will also have 6Tb, 4Tb, 3Tb, 2Tb or 1Tb models where only the 8Tb and 6Tb models will be spinning at 7200rpm. The other models (4,2,1Tb models) will be spinning only at 5900 rpm, which is a shame as the write/read performance will obviously be lower…
The specifications and details:
- 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
Below you can see the model numbers for capacities 8, 6 or 4Tb… Which are the most interesting imho. But on Seagate's web site there are all the specs on the datasheet there….
NASWorks Technology – What's that?
NASWorks™ technology supports customized error recovery controls, power management and vibration tolerance for optimal performance and reliability with workloads up to 180TB/year workload rate limit (WRL).
The drives were designed for use in different applications, like:
- Home/SOHO NAS desktop towers
- Desktop RAID and servers
- Backup and disaster recovery
- Print and file servers
- Multimedia server/storage
- Archival
- Virtualization
- Small-business file sharing
- Backup servers
- Personal cloud
NAS manufacturers including ASUSTOR, QNAP, Synology and Thecus did already put the drive on their compatibility list with their products….
The drive shall be available by the end of the Q1 2016.
Sources:
- Release Notes Seagate
- NAS Drives – Seagate Website
- AnandTech
