A Set of Seagate 14TB HDD for Applications Has Been Announced

Although SSD is going to occupy more and more market all over the world, the traditional hard disk drives still occupy the largest market and are always useful for many applications due to its lower price and the amount of storage space.

A set of Seagate 14TB HDD for applications are just introduced. They are ranged from NAS to desktop and from the surveillance to the hyper scale environments.

Now, we will introduce the detailed situations about this development.

The Situations of These Seagate 14TB HDD

The Seagate Company announced an upgrade in the field of their 3.5-inch form factor 14 TB HDD. Indeed, this update is intended for enterprises and the specialty drive applications.

This set of new HDDs are various, including the IronWolf and InronWolf Pro drives which are designed for network storage applications; the BarraCuda Pro which can be used as the desktop drive; the SkyHawk drive is used for surveillance applications and the Exos X14 is used for hyperscale data applications.

Seagate said that “With this offering, Seagate continues to lead the industry in driving data storage technology toward a lower cost per terabyte through hard drive optimization, versatility of application, and unmatched capacity.”

As to the specified situations of these four kinds of Seagate 14TB HDD, you can refer to the following contents to learn them.

IronWolf NAS HDD

The IronWolf NAS HDDs are designed for the multi-user environments with a 300 TB/year workload rating. The optimized AgileArray firmware is used on this drive, and it can work for NAS servers.

Due to this optimization, you can get a lot of benefits like RAID performance, dual-plane balance, rotational vibration (RV) sensors, advanced power management and error recovery control.

Another two advantages are the Seagate’s IronWolf Health Management and 2-year Seagate Rescue Data Recovery Services.

If the warranty period is expired, you can try the free data recovery software – MiniTool Power Data Recovery to retrieve your data on the drive.

Besides, you can obtain a 3 years warranty by using the IronWolf and a 5 years warranty by using the IronWolf Pro.

BarraCuda Pro 3.5-inch HDD

The BarraCuda Pro 3.5-inch HDD supply you with a higher storage capacity for desktop workstations. Besides, you can get direct attached storage (DAS) enclosures.

The BarraCuda Pro offers you high transfer speed. You can handle it at 7,200 RPM with 250 Mb/s data transfer rates and up to 256 MB of cache which is managed by Seagate’s Multi-Tier Caching Technology. Besides, this drive offers a 5 years limited warranty.

SkyHawk 14 TB

The SkyHawk 14 TB drive is developed for DVRs and NVRs. It tunes for 24/7 workloads and is equipped with the ImagePerfect firmware to which is used minimize dropped frames and downtime.

The Seagate Company also supplies you with the SkyHawk Health Management technology which can actively monitor and analyze the drive health situation. You can get a 3-year warranty with this drive.

Exos X14

The Exos X14 drive has enhanced areal density and it can be used to deliver higher storage capacity. It is equipped with a compact 3.5-inch form factor. It can also ship in a modular enterprise system for scaling up to 1.4PB density.

The Exos X14 drive is an important product. You can enter Seagate official site to learn it more detailed.

Summary

In many consumer and client applications, the flash memory has replaced the HDDS. But, you have to admit that the use of HDD in enterprise and specialty applications, including hyper scale environments is going to be more and more. Thus, Seagate 14TB HDD for applications is the direction of the Seagate Company.