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Seagate® NAS HDDs are now available with Rescue Data Recovery Services by Seagate. Purchasing a drive with Seagate's Rescue plan provides 3-year data recovery at a fraction of the cost of third-party recovery services. Each NAS HDD is built and tested to provide industry-leading performance for small NAS systems in capacities up to 4TB. And NASWorks™ technology provides customized error recovery controls, advanced power management and vibration tolerance features. Furthermore, NAS error recovery controls help ensure drive health in RAID arrays. Specifically, NAS HDDs are designed for:
Industry-Leading Performance
Built and tested to provide industry-leading performance, NAS HDDs are fine-tuned to quickly and reliably support home and business applications. By supporting multiple HD video streams and user profiles in a multi-drive environment, Seagate NASWorks reliably provides the performance demanded by NAS solutions. Custom-built features minimize the occurrence of common issues found in NAS applications.
NAS Works
NASWorks includes features such as extended error recovery controls, minimized vibration effects and advanced power management. Furthermore, NASWorks improves drive health and performance, delivering the 24x7 reliability demanded by 1- to 8-bay systems.
NASWorks: Ensuring Drive Health in RAID Arrays
NAS error recovery controls help ensure drives maintain the highest data integrity without compromising system performance. Working together with a RAID array, NAS error recovery controls protect your data where traditional desktop HDDs may fail and cause the RAID to start the time-consuming task of rebuilding the entire drive.
NASWorks: Enabling Performance in Multi-Drive Environments
Standard desktop drives can emit vibrations that become amplified in systems with two or more drives, compromising performance and data integrity. With the support of the NASWorks dual-plane balance, drive vibrations are dampened so that they can perform consistently and reliably in applications with one to eight drives.
High-Capacity NAS HDD
You can maximize your storage and minimize costs with up to 4TB on a single NAS HDD—that's enough for up to 800 thousand photos, one million songs or 500 hours of HD video content at home. Or, it's enough space to store CAD files, images and databases at the office.
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Desktop HDD |
NAS HDD Network-Attached Storage (NAS) & Desktop RAID |
Terascale | Enterprise Capacity |
HOME PERSONAL STORAGE | SOHO/SMB/PROSUMER | SMALL-MEDIUM BUSINESS | LARGE BUSINESS |
1 Bay | 1 to 8 bay | 4-16 bays rackmount/tower | >8 bays rackmount/tower |
Capacity: 164GB - 4TB | Capacity: 2, 3, 4TB | Capacity: 1, 2, 3, 4TB | Capacity: 500GB - 6TB |
Excellent Desktop Performance | NASWorks Firmware | Low Power | Nearline High IOP Performance |
Rescue Data Recovery Sold Separately | Rescue Data Recovery Optional Models | No Rescue Data Plans Available | No Rescue Data Plans Available |
2400 Power on hours 8x5 usage | 8760 Power on hours/24x7 usage | 8760 Power on hours/24x7 usage | 8760 Power on hours/24x7 usage |
- | 1 Million MTBF Hours | 800,000 MTBF Hours | 2 Million MTBF Hour |
2 Year Warranty | 3 Year Warranty | 3 Year Warranty | 5 Year Warranty |
Specifications | 4TB1 | 3TB1 | 2TB1 |
Model Number | ST4000VN000 | ST3000VN000 | ST2000VN000 |
Interface Options | SATA 6Gb/s | SATA 6Gb/s | SATA 6Gb/s |
Halogen Free | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NASWorks | |||
Number of Drive Bays Supported | 1 to 8 | 1 to 8 | 1 to 8 |
Dual-Plane Balance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Vibration Tolerance for Small NAS | Yes | Yes | Yes |
NASWorks Error Recovery Control | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Performance | |||
Cache, Multisegmented (MB) | 64 | 64 | 64 |
SATA Transfer Rates Supported (Gb/s) | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 |
Power-On or Standby to Ready (typical, sec) | <17 | <17 | <17 |
Max Sustained Data Transfer Rate OD (MB/s) | 180 | 180 | 159 |
How Much Will it Store? | |||
![]() Based on 4.096MB song,128kbps bit rate,11:1 audio compression ratio |
1,000,000 | 750,000 | 500,000 |
![]() Average file size using cameras highest resolution JPEG mode |
819,200 | 614,400 | 409,600 |
![]() Based on H.264 compression at a 6.75Mbs bitrate |
493 | 370 | 247 |
1One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. 2Seagate ships this drive in both 4K- and 512-byte sectors. SmartAlign technology is included on 4K sector drives. Both drives are functionally and physically equivalent. |
SEAGATE 3.5 INCH INTERNAL DRIVE COMPARISON | ||||
Desktop HDD | DESKTOP SSHD | NAS HDD | SURVEILLANCE HDD | |
Reliable performance made for home and store everything | 5x faster than Desktop HDD. More capacity than SSD (1) | Up to 25% faster than other brands, made for home and small office data sharing (2) | Optimized to improve surveillance system reliability, reduce costs and support video analytics | |
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Capacity | 1TB - 4TB | 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 2TB, 3TB, 4TB | 1TB - 6TB |
Ideal for | Home and Business Computing | Gaming system, video editing, power computing | 1 - 8 bay NAS systems for Home, SMB | DVR or NVR systems with multiple drives and HD cameras |
Cache | 64MB (1-4TB) | 64MB with 8GB NAND Flash | 64MB | 64MB |
Power-on Hours | 8x5 | 8x5 | 24x7 | 24x7 |
SSD-like performance | ? | |||
Network storage | ? | ? | ||
Photo and Video Editing | ? | |||
DVR & Video Surveillance | ? | |||
RV Sensors (3) | ? | ? | ||
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RAID Support | ? | ? | ||
Warranty | 2 years | 5 years | 3 years | 3 years |
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