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NAS vs.

Desktop
Marketing Bulletin

Evaluating HDDs for


NAS Applications
When choosing the right drive for any application, there are many factors to take
into consideration, including what the drive will be used for, what applications it
will run, what requirements the environment will place on the drive, and what
levels of capacity, performance, reliability or speed will be needed. With more
data streaming into homes and small businesses than ever, there is greater
demand for simple, centralized NAS storage arrays, but the demands on a drive
in these systems are high. Enter the Seagate® NAS HDD, the first Seagate drive
purpose-built for 1- to 5-bay NAS arrays.
Traditionally, small NAS solutions employed desktop drives, but they demanded
more than a typical desktop HDD could reliably deliver. Those demands include
NAS error recovery controls, drive vibration and advanced power management
features, all of which are addressed with Seagate NASWorks™ technology. By
choosing Seagate NAS HDD with NASWorks, you can expect more reliable
performance from your 1- to 5-bay NAS systems.

NAS Error Recovery Controls


Seagate NASWorks helps to ensure drives remain active in a RAID environment.
For example, in a typical desktop environment, if a drive needs to rebuild data,
it can take 20 seconds or longer. In a typical NAS application, if the drive takes
longer than seven seconds to recover data, the RAID assumes the drive dropped
out of the array and will start the time-consuming task of rebuilding the entire
drive. With NASWorks, however, the drive will stop trying to recover data within
seven seconds. Instead, the drive will notify the RAID that it needs help rebuilding
a specific piece of data. The RAID can help correct that data from backups, and a
full drive rebuild is avoided.
NAS vs. Desktop

Dual-Plane Balance
Traditional desktop drives emit small levels of vibration
because of their rotating magnetic platters. For laptop and
desktop systems, the vibration of a single drive has little effect
on a system. However, if the same desktop drive is integrated
into a multi-drive environment like a NAS box, the effects
are amplified and can cause reductions in performance. For
multi-drive applications, NASWorks helps dampen drive
vibrations with dual-plane balance. By better balancing the
drive motor, drive vibration is minimized, making it more
reliable in 1- to 5-bay environments. (For larger environments,
Seagate enterprise-class drives offer additional features to
better displace the effects of vibration, further improving drive
reliability.)

Advanced Power Management


Finally, desktop drives are built to run in profiles that are
somewhat parallel to your own workweek. That is, they’re
expected to run on and off for multiple hours at a time, but
not 24×7. NAS environments demand more and expect
ready access to data. For that reason, NASWorks provides
24×7 operation profiles and advanced power management
modes to help drives go into the appropriate sleep or standby
mode; this maximizes power conservation, minimizes time-to-
data and improves overall reliability and performance.
To avoid frustration and improve performance and reliability
in multi-drive applications, choose drives that support these
features. You can see performance improvement and better
overall health in your NAS solution with Seagate NAS HDDs
supported by NASWorks.

www.seagate.com

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© 2013 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other
countries. NASWorks is either a trademark or registered trademark of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. MB633.1-1304US, April 2013

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