Seagate has announced that it has begun shipping the Exos X24 to key customers ahead of its availability in volume for channel distribution in December. This new hard drive, which Seagate says is its highest density HDD ever, is a new 7200 RPM, enterprise-class hard drive that features 10 disks, delivering 2.4 TB each, for a total storage capacity of 24 TB. The Exos X24, which is also available in 20 TB, 16 TB, and 12 TB capacities, is a conventional magnetic recording (CMR) drive, as shown in Seagate’s “Which Drive Has What?” page.
Seagate Exos X24 Hard Drive Features
- Market-leading 24TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytes per rack
- Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching—making it the logical choice for cloud data center and massive scale-out data center applications
- Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency
- PowerBalance feature optimizes watts per TB
- Maximize total cost of ownership savings through lower power and weight with helium-sealed drive design
- Proven helium side-sealing weld technology for added handling, robustness, and leak protection
- Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance
- Data protection and security—featuring Seagate Instant Secure for safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement
- Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by a 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating
Designed for maximum storage capacity and the highest rack-space efficiency, Exos X24 is purpose-built for hyperscale with powerful performance and proven technology. The new helium 3.5-inch 7200 RPM nearline drive offers both SATA and SAS interfaces and delivers enhanced caching that performs up to three times better than solutions that only utilize read or write caching.
Exos X24 also delivers increased sustained data rate (SDR) of up to 285 MB/s and power efficiency by maintaining IOPS/Watt and proven enterprise-class reliability with a 2.5M-hr meantime between failures (MTBF) rating. It offers Seagate Secure encryption technology offering self-encrypting drive (SED), SED-FIPS, and instant secure erase (ISE). The Exos X24 is offered with a 5-year limited warranty./