Jul 9, 2026 - eRacks Re-Verifies Its Entire NAS Line Against the 2026 Drive Shortage: In-Stock 24TB Defaults, 32TB Ceiling, Prices Matched to Real Component Costs

Jul 9, 2026 - eRacks Re-Verifies Its Entire NAS Line Against the 2026 Drive Shortage: In-Stock 24TB Defaults, 32TB Ceiling, Prices Matched to Real Component Costs

Fremont, CA - Jul 9, 2026

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eRacks Re-Verifies Its Entire NAS Line Against the 2026 Drive Shortage: In-Stock 24TB Defaults, 32TB Ceiling, Prices Matched to Real Component Costs

Every default component re-checked against multiple named suppliers; backorder-only drives removed from defaults; ZFS RAIDZ2 now the standard pool on every storage system, from the $1,995 NAS4 to the petabyte-class NAS100.

FREMONT, CA, July 9, 2026: eRacks Open Source Systems, a builder of open-source rackmount servers since 1999, today announced a full re-verification of its network-attached storage (NAS) line against current component supply. In an ongoing drive and memory shortage that has pushed some popular drives to backorder-only status, eRacks checked every default component against multiple named suppliers for both price and actual availability, and re-set its configurations and prices to match.

The headline change is honesty about drives. The 30TB drives some vendors still advertise are effectively unobtainable, so eRacks now defaults its high-capacity systems to the 24TB Seagate IronWolf Pro, a conventional-recording (CMR) drive in stock at multiple national retailers, and offers the in-stock 32TB IronWolf Pro at the top of the ladder, at nearly the same cost per terabyte. Every drive in the NAS configurators is CMR; eRacks does not use shingled (SMR) drives, whose write performance collapses under the sustained loads of RAID rebuilds.

ZFS is now the default everywhere. Every eRacks storage system, from the 1U four-bay NAS4 to the petabyte-class NAS100, now defaults to a ZFS RAIDZ2 pool (dual parity: any two drives can fail without data loss), with RAIDZ3 and striped-mirror layouts selectable, paired with an IT-mode host bus adapter that passes drives directly to ZFS. Traditional hardware RAID remains available as an option for shops that require it, but it is never the silent default. A free guide to choosing a ZFS layout is at https://eracks.com/guides/zfs-layout/

The entry line keeps its price. The 1U NAS4 still starts at $1,995 and the 2U NAS6 at $2,995, now with 16GB of DDR5 memory standard and ECC memory (error-correcting code memory) available as an upgrade. Mid-size and large models are repriced to current component reality: the 2U NAS12 with 12 hot-swap bays, dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and an Intel Xeon 6 processor starts at $8,995, and the 4U NAS72 at $25,995. Every system ships with the customer's choice of TrueNAS SCALE, Proxmox VE, Ubuntu Server, or other open-source operating systems, burned in for 72 hours under load.

"When a part goes backorder-only, the honest move is to stop defaulting to it, not to keep quoting a price you can't deliver," said Joseph Wolff, Founder and CTO of eRacks Systems. "We re-checked every default in the line against real supplier stock. What you configure is what we can actually build this week, at a price that reflects what the parts actually cost."

The re-verification follows eRacks' publication of its component sourcing standards at https://eracks.com/components-we-use/ and applies the same multi-source price-and-availability discipline used in its recent private AI server relaunch. The full NAS line is at https://eracks.com/products/rackmount-nas-servers/

About eRacks Open Source Systems

eRacks Open Source Systems, founded in 1999 and based in Fremont, California, specializes in open-source servers and storage. The company builds custom-configured rackmount servers, NAS (network-attached storage) systems, HPC (high-performance computing) clusters, and AI inference servers, all shipped with Linux or other open-source operating systems. More at https://eracks.com

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