This week Seagate has unveiled their new 14TB
Helium-Based Exos X14 Enterprise hard drive which is currently being tested by
select customers and will be rolling out during the summer months of 2018. The
Seagate Exos X14 storage drive has been created to provide users with high
performance and greater capacity for hyperscale data centres looking to
“efficiently and cost-effectively manage increasing amounts of data”.
The Exos X14 offers the industry’s lowest power
consumption, smallest footprint, and best performance in its class. Sai
Varanasi, vice president, product line marketing, storage devices at Seagate
explains more “Our hyperscale customers want the best value in terms of total
cost of ownership and that is mainly driven by capacity, power efficiency,
enhanced caching, and predictable I/O”. ”Exos X14 shines on all four fronts by
delivering 14TB with leading sustained transfer rates and random I/O
responsiveness optimized for hyperscale applications.”
Key features of the 14TB Helium-Based Exos X14
Enterprise hard drive include 40 percent more petabytes per rack versus Exos
10TB drives and a 10 percent weight reduction compared to air nearline drives. Unfortunately, no information on pricing or
worldwide availability has been released as yet, but as soon as information
comes to light, we will keep you updated as always.
