Seagate Introduces Exos® X24 HDD Enterprise Drives

The Seagate Exos X24 is an enterprise-class nearline hard drive designed to specifically address the growing exabyte demand. This helium sealed-drive technology is scalable, responsive and innovative for easy system integration into today’s storage platforms. Delivering the highest capacities with the highest reliability rating combined with the lowest power helps optimize your total cost of ownership.

Exos X24 is backed by the industry’s highest MTBF at 2.5M hours, a 5 year limited warranty, and a workload rate limit of 550TB/year for 24×7 use (8760 power-on hours).

• Highest 24TB HDD performance with enhanced caching, making it perfect for Cloud Datacenter and Big Data applications
• Advanced Write Caching feature for 20% boost in random write performance
• Instant Secure Erase for safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement
• Lower total cost of ownership through lower power and weight enabled by helium sealed-drive technology
• Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 2.5M-hr MTBF and 5-year warranty

Best-Fit Applications

• Hyperscale applications/cloud datacenters
• Massive scale-out data centers
• High-capacity density RAID storage
• Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
• Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
• Enterprise backup and restore—D2D, virtual tape
• Centralized surveillance