Seagate 3.5" Enterprise NAS SATA600 ST-VN / NE Series

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

3
Average:

1
Bad:

0

Pros:

Great overall performance, 5year warranty and optional Rescue Data Recovery Service plan, Massive 8TB capacity as well as a wide range of smaller models
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.2 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Of The Charts Performance, 256MB Cache, 8TB's Capacity, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.2 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Of The Charts Performance, 6TB's Capacity, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty

Cons:

Underwhelming results in a few categories (iSCSI 4K) and sometimes behind the 6TB
Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To Other NAS Drives)

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Last revision on December 29, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Great overall performance, 5year warranty and optional Rescue Data Recovery Service plan, Massive 8TB capacity as well as a wide range of smaller models
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.2 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Of The Charts Performance, 256MB Cache, 8TB's Capacity, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty
Enterprise Class Quality, 1.2 Million Hours MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures), Top Of The Charts Performance, 6TB's Capacity, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures/Noise Levels, 5 Years Warranty
Bestinclass overall performance, Available in a wide range of capacities including 6TB, 5year warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Service plan (optional)

Reviewers Didn't Like

Underwhelming results in a few categories (iSCSI 4K) and sometimes behind the 6TB
Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To Other NAS Drives)
Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To The WD RED)
Slips behind the Seagate NAS HDD in our CIFS 8k sequential benchmark

Expert reviews and ratings

100

Is there such a thing as too much storage? In this day and age, probably not. And while it is always great to have a backup in the cloud there is still a lot to be said for local storage. A device that can serve everyone in your location easily and at...

By HardwareHeaven on February 23, 2016

It is no secret that I am a storage junkie. Everyone that visits this site should have figured that out by now. With as much data as I store on my network(s), I am always on the hunt for a better hard drive to (over)populate my NAS and servers. Desktop...

By Computing on Demand on July 20, 2015

As Western Digital found with its WD Red hard disk, there's a healthy interest in high-capacity hard disks you can use in a NAS drive . The Seagate NAS is the unimaginatively named product from Seagate that fills a gap in its range, a 3.5in SATA disk...

By PC Advisor on February 26, 2014

Considerably faster than Western Digital's Red series when it comes to read performance, Seagate's NAS HDD is the best SOHO NAS drive we've tested....

By APC Magazine on February 26, 2014

So with NAS (network attached storage) being the primary use for the Seagate ST4000VN000, is it a worthwhile purchase over a conventional hard drive and does it warrant the £143 price tag? Well jumping right into the main focus which is the performance,...

By Play3r on January 01, 2014

Though it doesn't perform like a standard drive suitable to be paired with an OS for your...

By hardwarebbq.com on August 05, 2013

You should pick the storage drives for your NAS with care and not just take some random cheap drive. After all, these are your precious files and you wouldn't want to lose them. The Seagate NAS 8TB drives would be a perfect choice for this. We already...

By eTeknix on May 29, 2016

Along with its fantastic performance and great reliability features, the 8TB Seagate Enterprise HDD offers businesses massive storage capacity, which helps to optimize both storage footprint and power...

By StorageReview on February 26, 2016

You should never compromise when you purchase storage, after all, this is where you keep all your precious files. This is a rule that is more important for NAS usage than anything else as this is where you not only store your precious files, but also...

By eTeknix on December 04, 2015

When we reviewed the Enterprise NAS 6TB model a while back we were all impressed with both its performance results and the “reported” reliability numbers. I even recall thinking as to why Seagate would release a NAS oriented HDD model which was even...

By NikkTech on November 21, 2015

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