Seagate not too long ago launched their 18TB flagship IronWolf Pro laborious drive for SMB/SME NAS items. Today, the corporate is unveiling the Exos enterprise model of the identical drive. The Exos X18 goes head-to-head in opposition to the Western Digital WD Gold 18TB EAMR-based drives launched in July. Seagate can also be taking the chance to broaden their utility/storage server lineup with a 2U 12-bay mannequin – the Exos AP 2U12 Compute and Storage System.
The Seagate Exos X18, just like the IronWolf Pro 18TB, is a 7200 RPM CMR (standard magnetic recording) drive with a 256MB multi-segmented cache. It comprises further reliability options, and firmware tweaks to offer options geared in the direction of knowledge facilities and enterprise storage arrays. These embrace caching tweaks to optimize the drive for low-latency giant knowledge transfers, and an influence steadiness function that permits customization of the ability consumption for the very best watts/TB given a specific set of workloads. The MTBF will increase from 1.2M within the IronWolf Pro to 2.5M hours for the Exos X18.
The most sustained disk switch fee additionally will increase from 260 MBps to 270 MBps. Seagate quotes most working energy of 9.4W, with idling common at 5.3W. The IronWolf Pro 18TB idles at 5.2W.
Seagate additionally has a lineup of merchandise below the Exos Systems tag – these embrace multi-bay rackmount storage enclosures falling below three totally different classes – the AP sequence for compute and storage with an in-built x86 server CPU, the X sequence RAID enclosures, and the E sequence JBOD enclosures. Today, the corporate is introducing a 2U12 AP mannequin – because the identify suggests, the 2U rackmount server helps as much as 12 3.5″ drives and comes with two 10GBASE-T ports and two gigabit ports. The server board is predicated on the Xeon v5 v4 household, and CPUs with TDP of as much as 85W are supported.
Coming again to the Exos X18, Seagate affords it in each SATA and SAS variations. The SATA model has a MSRP of $562, undercutting the WD Gold by $30.
