Exos
Seagate on Wednesday introduced its Exos X24 family of hard drives, it's highest capacity series of drives to date. The new family is comprised of both conventional magnetic recording technology (CMR) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR) models, with the CMR drive topping out at 24 TB, while SMR brings the peak capacity up to 28 TB. Both are, as of now, the highest-capacity HDDs in their respective segments. But perhaps the most important technological development with the Exos X24 lineup is that it uses a platform that will be largely re-used for the upcoming HAMR drives. The Seagate Exos X24 3.5-inch helium-filled hard drive family includes 12 TB, 16 TB, 20 TB, and 24 TB models, which are built using up to 10 2.4 TB...
Big Leap for Hard Drive Capacities: 32 TB HAMR Drives Due Soon, 40TB on Horizon
Offering a brief update on the future of hard drives, Seagate has shared some fresh insights concerning launch of its next generation hard drives featuring its heat-assisted magnetic recording...
29 by Anton Shilov on 6/8/2023Seagate Introduces AMD EPYC-Based Exos Application Platform: Up To 1.344PB in 5U
Seagate's Application Platform (AP) series of servers have targeted the market segments requiring tightly coupled storage and compute capabilities. The currently available SKUs - The Exos AP series with...
5 by Ganesh T S on 12/14/2021Seagate Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro 20TB Expand Retail 20TB HDD Options
Seagate has updated their flagship capacity options for the retail HDD market with the availability announcement for two new hard drives today - the Exos X20 and IronWolf Pro...
10 by Ganesh T S on 12/2/2021Seagate Unveils Exos X18 18TB Enterprise Hard Drive
Seagate recently introduced their 18TB flagship IronWolf Pro hard drive for SMB/SME NAS units. Today, the company is unveiling the Exos enterprise version of the same drive. The Exos...
41 by Ganesh T S on 9/17/2020Seagate Announces Helium-based 16 TB Exos and IronWolf Hard Drives
Seagate is launching their 16 TB CMR (conventional magnetic recording) helium drives today under two product lines - the Exos X for datacenter usage, and the IronWolf / IronWolf...
37 by Ganesh T S on 6/4/2019Seagate Ships 16 TB CMR Hard Drives, Preps 18 TB SMR HDDs
Continuing the march of progress in the HDD industry, Seagate has revealed that they have started shipping their 16 TB PMR hard drives. In a quarterly earnings call last...
27 by Anton Shilov on 5/6/2019Seagate Shows Off 14 TB Exos HDD, Promises Consumer 14 TB Drives in Q4
Seagate is among many companies that do not announce a new stack of products at every trade show because design-in cycles of modern storage devices are fairly long and...
10 by Anton Shilov on 6/6/2018Seagate Announces Exos X14: a Helium-Filled 14 TB PMR HDD
Seagate this week formally introduced its first hard drive with 14 TB capacity aimed at cloud datacenters that does not use shingled magnetic recording. The new Exos X14 HDDs...
10 by Anton Shilov on 3/21/2018Seagate’s Multi Actuator Technology to Address HDD IOPS Woes
Seagate introduced its new Multi-Actuator Technology (MAT) for hard drives earlier this month. It promises to increase hard drive performance by using two or more sets of actuator arms...
88 by Anton Shilov on 12/29/2017