Further-large storage: Whereas engaged on the “heated” way forward for laborious disk expertise, Seagate is introducing a brand new line of magnetic storage items. The corporate’s Exos X24 drives supply extra-large storage capability for knowledge facilities and servers, and they’re adequate to work as a basis for the upcoming HAMR items.
Seagate is refreshing its Exos line with the Exos X24 HDD fashions. The brand new laborious drives present the very best density within the trade, the US firm states, and are designed to work in hyperscale and enterprise environments with “scale-out knowledge facilities.” Being an enterprise-oriented expertise, the Exos X24 line consists of lots of the options historically anticipated from this sort of product.
Exos X24 HDD choices vary from 12TB to 24TB 3.5″ fashions, that are primarily based on standard magnetic recording (CMR) expertise to maximise efficiency and reliability. A single, 28TB mannequin primarily based on the troublesome shingled magnetic recording (SMR) expertise is obtainable to chose clients that may work with these sorts of items in cloud environments.
The Exos X24 line packs as much as 10 platters in a single drive, with every platter offering 2.4TB of storage density. The 24TB mannequin is the very best density laborious drive out there within the trade, Seagate states, offering a major discount in TCO (whole price of possession) to enterprise and knowledge heart clients.
The record of all-important options out there with the brand new Exos X24 HDDs features a pace of seven,200 RPM, a 256MB cache, and an areal density of 1,260 Gbit per sq. inch. The height sustained switch charge is 285 megabytes per second, Seagate says, which is according to HDD items from the earlier era. The drives have a MTBF (meantime between failures) charge of two.5 million hours, which ought to be sufficient to cowl the included 5 years of guarantee.
The Exos X24 drives additionally embody energy effectivity options, Seagate Safe encryption expertise for self-encrypting drives (SED), SED-FIPS, and on the spot safe erase (ISE). The helium-filled HDDs are provided with each SATA and SAS interfaces for extra flexibility and set up choices.
Chosen Exos X24 drives are being shipped to “key clients” for qualification, whereas manufacturing ought to ramp up in December. As a aspect be aware, Seagate reveals that the Exos X24 platform will present the identical “underlying expertise” for the primary HDDs primarily based on the Warmth-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) tech the corporate has been engaged on for years. The brand new 30TB HAMR items are scheduled to debut in 2024.