What enterprise NAS hard drive is best?
9.2 out of 10 — Simply.Reviews has ranked our Enterprise NAS HDD top of the pack, after extensive testing of drives based on real-time deployment of NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers centered within a business environment. They awarded Seagate’s drive a 10 out of 10 for Performance, and a 9 out of 10 for its Specifications, Warranty and Value. All told, that adds up to better than 9 reasons you or your IT manager should pick the drive to populate your NAS servers and solve your big data needs.
We’ve talked about how important it is to choose the right internal hard drives depending on your NAS applications, and you may already understand specific drives like our latest Enterprise NAS HDD are the best choice for sustained performance, global availability and 24×7 accessibility for mid-range enterprise and private cloud environments.
Test NAS hard drives for performance
Simply.Reviews concurs, noting after its extensive testing that “with great performance and reliability [these] NAS Enterprise drives will have a huge impact within the SMB-Enterprise storage arena,” and that the drives “are best suited for enterprise NAS applications that require data agility for collaboration.”
Be sure to read the full article for the excruciating details of Simply.Reviews’ testbed and “Real-World simulation of data transfer … using a mixture of smaller files with an accentuation on graphics (small video, images and medium to large size photos) … [for] an accurate gauge of what to expect of a NAS when deployed in a typical business scenario.”
Conclusion — best hard drive performance in mid-range enterprise and private cloud?
“What is conclusive is that the Seagate 6TB Enterprise NAS drive is a performer, and clearly designed for mid-range enterprise and private cloud environments; this model NAS HDD delivers sustained performance and 24×7 availability and accessibility.”
The publication also lauds a unique advantage for Seagate NAS drives: “What sets Seagate apart from its competitors is the availability of the +Rescue data recovery services. Data Loss is an area everyone wants to know about but are always cagey to talk about! It’s almost as though we are tempting fate if we talk about failures. As a previous loss of data advocate, let me just say, everyone needs to take a closer look, as recovering data from a drive in a RAID set is not easy.”
Hard drives optimized for NAS environments
If you don’t know the particulars of our Enterprise NAS HDD, check it out: It has the highest capacity in a single NAS drive (which helps lower your total cost by using fewer drives), optimized algorithms to help ensure high overall NAS performance in rackmount solutions, RAID Rebuild technology to mitigate time-consuming complete RAID rebuilds, 1.2 million hours MTBF and our 5-year warranty. It’s designed for aggressive workloads in enterprise environments — backup and disaster recovery, multi-media server and storage, archiving and cloud replication, on-premise private cloud and remote access, hybrid cloud, virtualization storage and tiered storage.
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