Seagate Exos X24 CMR 7,200rpm Helium SATA and SAS 3.5-Inch 24TB HDD with 10 Platters

Seagate Technology Holdings plc introduced the Exos X24 3.5-inch HDD.

With 10 disks delivering 2.4TB each, the Exos X24 is the company’s highest density HDDe, offering industry TCO for hyperscale customers and enterprises with scale-out data centers.

The conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based 24TB Exos X24 delivers capacity, high performance, and enterprise-class reliability. The company also continues to offer limited cloud customers the flexibility of a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) Exos X24 configuration at capacities of up to 28TB.

Designed for maximum storage capacity and the highest rack-space efficiency, Exos X24 is purpose-built for hyperscale with performance and proven technology. The helium 3.5-inch 7,200rpm nearline drive offers both SATA and SAS interfaces and delivers enhanced caching that performs up to 3x better than solutions that only utilize read or write caching.

Exos X24 also delivers increased sustained data rate (SDR) of up to 285MB/s and power efficiency by maintaining IO/s/W and enterprise-class reliability with a 2.5 million MTBF rating. It offers Seagate Secure encryption technology offering SED, SED-FIPS, and instant secure erase (ISE). It is offered with a 5-year limited warranty.

The Exos X24 qualification drives are shipping to key customers and production drives will be available in volume for channel distribution in December.

The company has leveraged the same underlying technology platform for its 30TB-plus HDDs based on HAMR technology which is on track to begin ramping production in early 2024.

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