It would probably be more accurate to say this is the first hard disk for NAS sold to a consumer market. All storage vendors sell NAS specific hard drives. Typ

It would probably be more accurate to say this is the first hard disk for NAS sold to a consumer market. All storage vendors sell NAS specific hard drives. Typically called 'enterprise SATA' or 'enterprise SAS'. They have similar enhancements as this, but they work with the storage vendor to tune the firmware in the controller to the expected workload pattern (vs. a general DAS workload)