Seagate has launched the Exos X24 hard drive with a storage capacity of up to 24TB for hyperscale and enterprise data centers, thereby reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of enterprise customers in data centers. It is also Seagate's highest storage density hard drive product to date.
The Exos X24 hard drive features a 10-platter design, with a single platter capacity of up to 2.4TB. It also utilizes CMR (conventional magnetic recording) technology, allowing its capacity, performance, and stability to surpass similar products on the market.
Seagate also plans to flexibly offer its Exos X28 hard drive, featuring SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology and capacities up to 24TB, to select cloud customers. Production of hard drives with capacities exceeding 30TB and utilizing HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) will gradually increase as planned, starting in early 2024.
The Exos X24 is purpose-built for hyperscale and enterprise data centers, designed with a focus on maximum storage capacity and rack space efficiency, delivering powerful performance and proven technology. This helium-powered nearline drive features a 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM form factor and is available in both SATA and SAS interfaces. It includes advanced caching capabilities, delivering up to three times the performance of read-only or write-only caching solutions.
By maintaining IOPs/Watt performance and providing proven enterprise-grade stability, the Exos X24 boasts significantly improved transfer speed and power efficiency, offering a 250 million-hour MTBF and up to 285 MB/s SDR. It also offers encryption technologies such as Seagate Secure, SED, SED-FIPS, and Instant Secure Erase, and is backed by a five-year limited warranty.
The Seagate Exos X24 has already been shipped to major customers and will enter mass production in December of this year, with sales expected to begin through distribution channels.
