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As a warm-up, let’s start with a fairly easy question. Which of the following work best with network-attached storage (NAS)?

Desktop HDDs

Archive HDDs

Top-of-the-line Flash Storage

NAS-Optimised HDDs

NAS-optimised drives such as the Seagate IronWolf series are purpose-built for NAS and RAID. What does that mean and why do they function better in NAS environments?

They use additional solid-state drive in the controller that behaves like an additional cache to allow the most frequently used files to be accessed more quickly. This greatly speeds up access for the NAS users.

They provide higher reliability and performance, able to handle high-end workload rates in high data traffic networks, simultaneously stream data to multiple sources and deliver random data, typically found in multi-user, always-on environments.

They are low-cost, high capacity drives that are energy efficient and are equipped with the latest SMR technology to prevent data loss for long-term usage. This ensures that your NAS will last much longer.

They are built to meet the efficiency, reliability and security requirements of the most advanced NAS environments, with “always-on” protection that encrypts all data without performance degradation.

Seagate’s IronWolf NAS-optimised hard drives are enhanced with AgileArray technology. What are some features of AgileArray that improve drive reliability and performance? (Tick all that apply)

Improved RAID optimisation in multi-bay environments

Advanced power management to strike a perfect balance between high performance and low power consumption

Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors to minimise performance degradation

Seamless auto backup provides an extra layer of data protection

Efficient error recovery control to allow the NAS system to recover data from each drive faster

To boost the health of your NAS, Seagate IronWolf drives also come with the industry’s most comprehensive embedded analysis and recovery software, the IronWolf Health Management (IHM). Which of the following is NOT IHM’s key capability?

Detection - Automatically detect faults, unauthorised access, when data is being tampered with, or in the case of ransomware, encrypted. This eliminates disk errors or corruption and ensures data is secure and can be recovered reliably.

Recovery - In the event of failure, IHM provides easy access to Seagate’s Rescue Data Recovery Service through the NAS OS.

Prevention - IHM monitors the system environment (e.g. temperature, shock, vibration, intermittent connections and signal integrity) and offers preventative actions to secure data.

Intervention - IHM analyses hundreds of parameters, recommending backup as needed to help users avoid catastrophic data loss events

Seagate recently released the world’s first NAS-optimised solid-state drives, the IronWolf 110 SSD series. How can the IronWolf 110 SSDs be best utilised in a NAS setup? (Tick all that apply)

To provide a massive performance upgrade to replace outdated or failed HDDs

As a high-speed tiering cache in a multi-drive NAS enclosure

To serve as flash-based RAM to improve NAS performance

As primary storage media in an all-flash array

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