Thursday, March 21st 2024
ASUSTOR Adds Seagate IronWolf Pro 24 TB High-Capacity NAS Dedicated Hard Drive Compatibility
ASUSTOR Inc. has updated the hard drive compatibility list by adding Seagate's IronWolf Pro 24 TB high-capacity NAS hard drive. The listed model is ST24000NT002. IronWolf Pro is designed for businesses and those that want the very most in data capacity. Using Seagate's 24 TB hard drives in conjunction with the largest ASUSTOR NAS devices means that some ASUSTOR NAS devices can support up to just under 400 TB.
24 TB drives also help ASUSTOR's MyArchive feature. The use of 24 TB hard drives helps make the backup process with MyArchive easier by using fewer drives. This helps facilitate safe 3-2-1 backups as well as providing as much archival storage as needed. Need even more space? Use the Xpanstor 4, one of the only expansion units featuring a 10 Gbps USB interface. It also supports MyArchive cold backup technology even on NAS devices that don't support hard drives. In addition to the additional 96 TB storage space provided by the four hard drive bays, the USB 3.2 Gen 2 port greatly increases the performance.
ASUSTOR's NAS devices such as the ASUSTOR AS54 and Lockerstor Gen 2 not only support IronWolf Pro 24 TB hard drives but also support up to four M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs, which is over twice the amount used in competing solutions of the same class. Both caching and storage are supported on M.2 SSDs, and all ASUSTOR NAS devices support the Seagate Ironwolf Health Management data protection software and all series of ASUSTOR NAS have a warranty plan of more than 3 years. This not only provides enterprises with a safe and efficient storage environment but also helps keep important files to be optimally stored and protected.
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24 TB drives also help ASUSTOR's MyArchive feature. The use of 24 TB hard drives helps make the backup process with MyArchive easier by using fewer drives. This helps facilitate safe 3-2-1 backups as well as providing as much archival storage as needed. Need even more space? Use the Xpanstor 4, one of the only expansion units featuring a 10 Gbps USB interface. It also supports MyArchive cold backup technology even on NAS devices that don't support hard drives. In addition to the additional 96 TB storage space provided by the four hard drive bays, the USB 3.2 Gen 2 port greatly increases the performance.
6 Comments on ASUSTOR Adds Seagate IronWolf Pro 24 TB High-Capacity NAS Dedicated Hard Drive Compatibility
Of course it's compatible. It's a SATA interface, on commodity SATA controllers, using STANDARD protocols. If Seagate made a new, larger hard drive I would 100% EXPECT it to work and Asus' hardware/firmware/software would be FAULTY if it was incompatible with the industry standard it claims to support.
If they have to modify their software to support larger drives, than that's just proof that their software team is short-sighted, narrow-minded, and oblivious to the way the industry has worked for the last 30+ years. Don't ever announce that you've fixed something that should never have needed fixing in the first place. Anyone who can read between the lines will interpret that as "they've fixed a very dumb mistake, caused by shortsightedness and poor planning - a problem that should never have existed in the first place, so my faith that the rest of this software/firmware is robust has been undermined and I'm not so sure I should buy another one in the future."
I understand the appeal of a NAS box such as this one, but at the same time, I'd much rather build a server box of my own - or even purchase an old decommissioned server, install Fedora on it and do my own thing (which is what I do).
I haven't used Asustor's enterprise NASes, I gather they're decent but they're also priced like datacenter storage servers and not running the MyArchive consumer backup software that Asustor focused on for this announcement.
I'm mostly looking at a base spec Dell PowerEdge T150, it'd do it for me. It's about 1000 bucks cheaper than a 4-bay Synology DS423+ here at 3.799 BRL ($760) it just hurts knowing that it's essentially a Pentium Gold G6405T prebuilt with a single 8 GB ECC stick and a 2 TB HDD. Ughh. I could easily upgrade it on my own over time, though, so there's that.