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NEW SEAGATE NAS STORAGE SOLUTION DELIVERS INDUSTRY’S HIGHEST CAPACITY
AND BEST PERFORMANCE
Custom-Built NAS HDDs Launched with Strong Support from Top NAS Providers
NEW DELHI – June 12, 2013: Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) took the wraps off its new Seagate ® NAS
HDD – a cutting-edge drive custom-built for always-on, one- to five-bay network attached storage (NAS) systems.
Engineered with performance and reliability in mind, the new drives are available in multiple capacity points
including a 4TB option – the industry’s highest capacity NAS hard disk drive (HDD) solution available – and strong
industry support from nine NAS system partners.
“Today about 50 percent of NAS arrays are sold diskless meaning that customers are challenged with identifying and
installing the right storage for their system. By developing a drive like NAS HDD, we’ve taken the guesswork out of
it and made it easy for customers to identify the right drive for their system,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president
of marketing. “By collaborating closely with a variety of partners who specialize in NAS systems, we’re making what
was a confusing effort into a plug-and-play one.”
Featuring up to 4TB of storage the drive now enables NAS systems, such as those utilized in homes and small to
midsize businesses (SMB), to provide up to 20TB of data in a five-bay NAS array. And with over 30 percent capacity
improvement over competitive offerings, the NAS HDD 4TB drive delivers the highest capacity available on the
market.
Cost effective drives built specifically for NAS solutions, the 4TB option has the capacity to store over 819,000
photos, 1 million songs or nearly 500 hours of high-definition (HD) video content – more than enough space for the
average household. It is also ideal for small businesses with large enough capacities to support CAD files, medical
images and databases.
“QNAP is thrilled to be teaming up with Seagate to offer our customers a high-performance storage solution
optimized for NAS systems,” said Meiji Chang, general manager of QNAP. “The Seagate NAS HDD allows us to
deliver the highest capacity storage offering on the market while providing our customers with a huge boost in
performance and a reliable business level NAS solution for 24x7 operations.”
“Households and SMBs continue to generate a significant amount of data, and need fast and reliable storage
solutions,” said John Rydning, IDC's research vice president for hard disk drives. “Rather than taking hours or days to
transfer a large amount of digital content over the internet to a cloud storage service provider, Seagate’s new NAS
HDD provides a high-capacity solution for fast data transfers and backups on-premise over local networks.”
Built to provide up to 10 percent performance advantage, over the competition for 24x7 NAS applications, the NAS
HDD is engineered for performance in always on applications and can support multiple HD video streams and user
profiles. The drive boasts near silent acoustics operating below the range of audible sound for the human ear with as
low as 1.9 bels, providing optimized acoustics for the home or SMB environment. It also features Seagate’s own
NASWorks™ technology which improves drive reliability by supporting features that limit drive vibrations and
support extended error recovery controls for better data integrity.
New Seagate NAS Solution Delivers Industry’s Highest Capacity and Best Performance
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Seagate NAS HDDs are built and tested to provide industry-leading performance for small NAS systems. Key
features of the NAS HDD include:
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Industry’s Highest Capacity NAS Drive: up to 4TB available, the NAS HDD offers a 30 percent capacity
advantage over the competition.
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Best Performance for 1- to -5-bay NAS Systems: built and tested to provide industry-leading performance,
NAS HDDs offer the industry’s highest throughput to deliver the performance demanded by NAS solutions.
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NASWorks— supports error correction via customized error recovery controls, power management and
vibration tolerance for optimal performance and reliability in a 1- to 5-bay solution.
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Improved Vibration Tolerance: dual-plane balance supports the unique weighted motor design minimizing
vibration that can be amplified in multi-drive systems improving the drive’s performance and system reliability.
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Advanced Power Management: supports multiple user-selectable power profiles that can optimize power usage
for different workloads to minimize power consumption while maintaining high-availability performance.
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Quiet Drive Operation: enhances the end customer experience with near-silent acoustics for low-noise
environments like living rooms or office spaces.
Designed with compatibility in mind, Seagate NAS hard disk drives have been rigorously tested by some of today’s
top NAS providers and flawlessly integrated into their NAS solutions. For more information on the Seagate NAS
HDD and qualified OEM partners please visit www.seagate.com/www/nashdd.
Strong NAS Partner Support
“Seagate's new NAS hard drives have been fully verified as being compatible with all ASUSTOR NAS products. Our
users demand reliable performance for 24x7 applications and we are glad to be able to offer them more choices when
selecting specialized hard disks for their NAS,” said Shawn Shu, president of ASUSTOR. “We are excited for the
launch of the Seagate NAS hard drives and believe that a combination of these drives with ASUSTOR’s full range of
NAS products will create an optimal user experience.”
“D-Link prides itself on developing innovative and intuitive solutions. By adding Seagate’s new NAS HDD to our
compatible product list, we continue to make it easy for our customers to choose the right storage and get the best
experience and reliability from their D-Link NAS,” said Jocelyn Chung, D-Link vice president of marketing, D-Link
global headquarters.
“LenovoEMC is focused on delivering innovative and cost-effective storage solutions that our customers value,” said
Eric Arcese, president and general manager, LenovoEMC Ltd. “Seagate’s new NAS HDD has been built and tested to
provide a performance advantage for always-on NAS applications while at the same time being offered at an
affordable price. As a qualified drive for use with Lenovo network storage products, the NAS HDD gives our
customers the opportunity to further maximize the return on their technology investments— that’s what we call a
‘win-win’ all around.”
“The majority of our NAS systems are sold diskless so it just makes sense to partner with an industry leader like
Seagate and bring a product to market that is purpose built for NAS arrays,” said Florence Shih, general manager of
Thecus Technology. “And with a name like NAS HDD, it makes it easy for customers to ask for the product by name
and know that they are getting the right drive for our solutions.”
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drive capacity, 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. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative
purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features, and application software.
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