Seagate's new Exos X24 difficult disk line reaches up to 24TB and 28TB

Extra-huge garage: While working at the "heated" future of tough disk era, Seagate is introducing a brand new line of magnetic storage gadgets. The employer's Exos X24 drives offer extra-massive garage potential for information facilities and servers, and they may be excellent enough to work as a foundation for the approaching HAMR devices.

Seagate is clean its Exos line with the Exos X24 HDD fashions. The new tough drives offer the very best density within the industry, the US agency states, and are designed to work in hyperscale and company environments with "scale-out information centers." Being an corporation-orientated technology, the Exos X24 line includes many of the capabilities historically anticipated from this form of product.

Exos X24 HDD offerings variety from 12TB to 24TB 3.5" fashions, which can be primarily based on conventional magnetic recording (CMR) generation to maximise performance and reliability. A single, 28TB version based totally at the tough shingled magnetic recording (SMR) generation is offered to selected customers which can paintings with these styles of devices in cloud environments.

The Exos X24 line packs up to 10 platters in a unmarried drive, with every platter offering 2.4TB of garage density. The 24TB model is the best density difficult power available in the enterprise, Seagate states, supplying a good sized reduction in TCO (general price of possession) to corporation and records center customers.

The listing of all-crucial features to be had with the brand new Exos X24 HDDs consists of a pace of seven,two hundred RPM, a 256MB cache, and an areal density of 1,260 Gbit consistent with rectangular inch. The height sustained switch price is 285 megabytes consistent with 2nd, Seagate says, which is in keeping with HDD devices from the previous era. The drives have a MTBF (period in-between among failures) price of two.5 million hours, which ought to be enough to cowl the blanketed five years of guarantee.

The Exos X24 drives additionally encompass energy efficiency features, Seagate Secure encryption technology for self-encrypting drives (SED), SED-FIPS, and instant steady erase (ISE). The helium-crammed HDDs are provided with both SATA and SAS interfaces for extra flexibility and set up alternatives.

Selected Exos X24 drives are being shipped to "key clients" for qualification, whilst manufacturing must ramp up in December. As a aspect word, Seagate reveals that the Exos X24 platform will provide the identical "underlying technology" for the first HDDs based totally on the Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) tech the enterprise has been operating on for years. The new 30TB HAMR gadgets are scheduled to debut in 2024.