Seagate launches the Seagate NAS HDD 8TB, a high-capacity drive optimized for RAID, Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and server storage. 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.

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, NAS manufacturers including ASUSTOR, QNAP, Synology and Thecus have qualified the NAS HDD 8TB for compatibility in a number of their products.

Seagate has shipped the Seagate NAS HDD 8TB to select customers, with wide-scale availability at the end of the current quarter.

The new drive includes:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, & 8TB capacities
• Suitability for 1- to 8-bay enclosures
• SATA 6Gb/s interface
• 256MB Cache
• Max. sustained transfer rate: 216MB/s
• Average operating power: 9W
• 180TB/year Workload Rate Limit (WRL)
• MTBF of 1M hours
• Three-Year Limited Warranty
• Optional three-year Rescue Data Recovery service to protect against potential data loss