14 DAY TRIAL // Most NAS devices can't handle hard disk drives of over 4 TB, but there are some rare ones with up to 6 TB support. The ones that Seagate has just released aren't among them, but they do have what it takes to run 5 TB drives.
The NAS devices are called Seagate NAS and NAS Pro and have an intuitive operating system (or so Seagate calls it) named NAS OS 4.
The company designed the product lines for small businesses that don't have many IT resources to go around but would still like to provide employees with better than decent networking, web streaming and virtualization capabilities.
A key benefit of Seagate NAS OS 4 is the App Manager. Through it, you can bestow various skills upon the storage devices, like Antivirus protection (Seagate Antivirus), surveillance via IP camera (Seagate Surveillance), open-source publishing (WordPress, good for blogs), universal access via web or mobile devices (Own Cloud), and synching/sharing of unlimited files (BitTorrent Sync).
Other than that, the new network-attached storage devices, Seagate NAS and NAS Pro, are pretty normal. The NAS (2-4 bays) has Marvel Dual core 1.2GHz processor and 512MB of RAM (firms of up to 25 employees), while NAS Pro boasts an Intel dual-core 1.7GHz C2000 Series processor and comes with 6 bays as well (up to 50 employees).
They should sell worldwide soon, if they aren't already available, for $399 / €399 to $2,499 / €2,499.