Seagate Delivers Industry’s First Enterprise-Ready Exos 16TB Hard Drive and Raises the Bar with IronWolf 16TB for NAS
June 04 2019 - 8:01AM
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16TB Exos® X16 Hard Drive Provides Solution for
High Density Storage Supporting Accelerated Hyperscale Demand and
IronWolf 16TB Delivers Highest Capacity for NAS
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data
storage solutions, today announced it has been actively shipping
16TB helium-based enterprise drives as part of the Exos® X16
family, delivering high performance and record capacity for
hyperscale data centers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage
ever-increasing amounts of data. The company also updated the
IronWolf® and IronWolf Pro Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive
lines with new 16TB capacity models.
The need for hyperscale, cloud, and NAS storage solutions
continues to rise to unprecedented levels. In fact, a recent IDC
whitepaper sponsored by Seagate predicts that the Global Datasphere
- the amount of data created, captured or replicated across the
globe – will grow from 33 zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by
2025. Seagate’s Exos X16 hard drive delivers the highest storage
density available with the field-proven reliability and continuous
high performance to support a broad range of workload requirements
and high-availability use cases.
Exos X16 HDD is the world’s highest capacity 3.5-inch 7200 RPM
drive designed to solve challenges by enabling hyperscale,
datacenter, OEM and distribution channel businesses to maximize
storage capacities, provide customer flexibility, and reduce
complexity with uses in multiple workloads with increased I/O and
enhanced caching capabilities. Seagate’s new Exos X16 16TB drive
delivers 33 percent more petabytes per rack compared to 12TB drives
while maintaining the same small footprint for a reduced overall
total cost of ownership. Exos X16 offers built-in data protection,
including Seagate Secure™ Instant Secure Erase for safe,
affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement.
“The Exos X16 is key in reducing total cost of ownership for
enterprise system developers and cloud data centers while
supporting multiple applications with varying workloads,” said Sai
Varanasi, vice president of product line marketing at Seagate
Technology. “The Exos X16 is the industry’s leading helium-based
16TB capacity drive. We are partnering with our cloud/enterprise
customers to bring this product to the market to fulfill the
pent-up exabyte demand in data centers. ”
Seagate continues to establish new benchmarks in speed and
capacity with the additional announcement of IronWolf and IronWolf
Pro 16TB drives, built for multi-user NAS environments and
supporting workloads up to 300TB/year. IronWolf is the ideal drive
for home and small office NAS systems that deliver performance, low
noise and low power consumption, making it efficient for everyday
use such as back up, remote access and file sharing. IronWolf Pro
drives are robust for NAS that operate in creative pro and
small-medium business environments that demand heavy workloads to
support their data needs.
Zheng Yafeng, vice president at Tencent Cloud, said, “At Tencent
Cloud, we are committed to creating a ‘digital ecosystem’, by
boosting the Industrial Internet sector and serving various
industries as a ‘digital assistant’. For the data lifecycle, from
generation to capture, storage and application, we are working
seamlessly with Seagate to understand how to cope with the
exponential rise in data volumes, with new innovative
architectures, from edge to cloud. Seagate’s 16TB Exos X16 hard
drive has been incorporated into our cloud solution, significantly
improving its storage density and performance, while cutting down
the cost. Not only does this solution fulfill the ever-increasing
demand of data centers for storage, but it helps us to efficiently
address the emerging scenarios, applications, and challenges.”
Peng Zhen, vice president at Inspur Group, said, “The era of
smart computing is coming, and at Inspur we are striving to create
a converged, open, and agile AI industry ecosystem so that we can
provide customers with integrated solutions. Inspur and Seagate are
working together in multiple fields, including cloud computing, big
data and artificial intelligence, all to drive enterprise digital
transformation. For Seagate’s 16TB helium-based Exos X16 enterprise
drive, we have completed a series of joint tests, which indicate it
delivers high performance with support for varying workloads,
allowing us to increase system capacity and reduce deployment
complexity, whilst considerably lowering total cost of ownership.
In the future, we will continue to partner with Seagate to drive
industries to transform further, and empower customers to embrace
the upcoming era of artificial intelligence.”
The Exos X16 16TB HDD has an MSRP of $629 and will be available
June 4.
For more information on the new Seagate Exos X16, IronWolf 16TB,
IronWolf Pro 16TB, IronWolf SSD and other Seagate products, visit
https://www.seagate.com.
About Seagate
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potential by innovating world-class, precision-engineered data
management solutions with a focus on sustainable partnerships.
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countries. Exos, IronWolf and Seagate Secure are either trademarks
or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its
affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries.
All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of
their respective owners. When referring to drive capacity, one
gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB,
equals one trillion bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use
a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In
addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and
other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage.
Actual data rates may vary depending on operating environment and
other factors, such as chosen interface and disk capacity.
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