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Seagate Technology® plc in collaboration with Synology® announced the availability of IronWolf™ Health Management for Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.1
March 2017 by Marc Jacob
Seagate Technology® plc in collaboration with Synology® announced the availability of IronWolf™ Health Management for Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) 6.1. Exclusively offered on Synology® NAS, IronWolf Health Management leverages the hardware sensors and software suite built into IronWolf NAS HDDs to provide intelligent analysis of drive health that goes beyond traditional diagnostic tools.
IronWolf Health Management is embedded software designed on the pillars of prevention, intervention and recovery. In addition to providing state-of-the-art data recovery, IronWolf Health Management oversees the health of the DiskStation’s drives throughout their useful life by continuously analyzing key parameters, and intercepting, containing, and resolving issues quickly. Using information gathered from additional operating conditions like temperature and humidity, IronWolf Health Management can also recommend preventative actions users can take to avoid problems arising in the first place.
IronWolf Health Management aims to actively protect Synology DiskStation NAS by keeping tabs on environmental and usage conditions, deploying algorithms that measure critical drive health parameters, and providing Seagate’s in-house data recovery with a 90 percent recovery rate.
