Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the needs of the hyperscale storage market. As the flagship of the Seagate® X class, the Exos® X16 enterprise hard drives are the highest-capacity hard drives in the fleet.
Best-Fit Applications
- Hyperscale applications/cloud data centres
- Massive scale-out data centres
- Big data applications
- High-capacity density RAID storage
- Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
- Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
- Enterprise backup and restore — D2D, virtual tape
- Centralised surveillance
Main Features
- Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency
- PowerBalance feature optimises Watts/TB
- Helium sealed-drive design delivers lower total cost of ownership through lower power and weight
- Next-generation 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: Seagate Secure features for safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement
- Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating
