Seagate Delivers Enterprise-Ready Exos 18TB Hard Drive Designed for Hyperscale Applications With Proven Enterprise Class Reli...
September 17 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Mass capacity storage and high-performance
servers come together in the perfect software-defined storage
platform, Exos AP
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data
storage and management solutions, today announced it is shipping
18TB helium-based enterprise drives in volume as part of the Exos®
X18 family. The new drive delivers high performance and mass
capacity for hyperscale data centers to efficiently and
cost-effectively manage ever-increasing amounts of data.
Additionally, Seagate’s Enterprise Data Solutions launched the new
Exos® Application Platform (AP) 2U12 as well as a new controller
for the company’s AP 4U100 systems.
The need for hyperscale and cloud storage solutions continues to
rise to unprecedented levels with the ever-increasing growth in
data generation. According to a recent Seagate report, Rethink
Data, enterprise data is expected to grow at an average rate of
42.2% over the next two years. The survey was conducted by IDC,
which also forecast the global datasphere will reach a staggering
175ZB by 2025 in a previous IDC whitepaper sponsored by Seagate.
The high-capacity Exos X18 supports this expanding need for data
storage.
Using the Exos X18, Seagate’s Enterprise Data Solutions team
combined high-capacity storage and compute into one platform. The
recently launched AP combine servers and storage in an
ultra-compact, dense system to meet the demands of businesses with
varying performance and capacity requirements. The Exos AP 2U12
offers a new controller, flexible enclosure, enterprise-grade
firmware, data protection, and automatic tiering.
“Seagate’s Exos X18 hard drives and upgraded Exos AP controllers
enable enterprises to effectively tackle challenges associated with
the exponential rise in data volumes by increasing system capacity
and reducing deployment complexity,” said Ken Claffey, vice
president and general manager of enterprise data solutions at
Seagate Technology. “With the ever-increasing demand from
enterprise data centers for greater storage capacity and
efficiency, Seagate offers the industry’s leading density and
configurability with ease of deployment for data lakes and private
storage clouds.”
Exos X18 is the fifth-generation high capacity helium 3.5-inch
7200 RPM nearline enterprise drive offering 18TB with both SATA and
SAS interfaces. It enables high-capacity storage solutions that
ensure customers can scale capacity in a cost-effective way. It
supports hyperscale, datacenter, and enterprise NAS system storage
challenges by enabling ultra-fast data transfers, lower power and
weight compared with traditional nearline drives, increased random
reads/write (IOPS) than previous generations with 512e and 4KN
formatting. Exos X18 includes built-in data protection through
Seagate Secure™ technology that provides for safe, affordable,
fast, and easy drive retirement.
The Exos X18 18TB hard drive is now available for an MSRP of
$561.75.
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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.
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