Furthermore, the drive delivers quite a good balance of performance-per-Watt and IOPS-per-Watt. Seagate says the power consumption is not an issue as some air-filled HDDs are power hungry too, so there are plenty of backplanes and servers that can deliver enough power and ensure proper cooling. Furthermore, that's also higher than the 12W usually recommended for 3.5-inch HDDs. An Exos 2X14 drive consumes 7.2W in idle mode and up to 13.5W under heavy load, which is higher than modern high-capacity helium-filled drives. However, hard drives and solid-state drives are used for different storage tiers in data centers, so the comparison is not exactly viable.īut performance increase comes at the cost of higher power consumption. Obviously, any SSD will still be faster than any HDD in random read/write operations. The Exos 2X14 is even faster than Seagate's 15K RPM Exos 15E900, so it is indeed the fastest HDD ever.įurthermore, its sequential read/write speeds can challenge inexpensive SATA/SAS SSDs (at a far lower cost-per-TB). Seagate's Exos 2X14 boasts a 524MB/s sustained transfer rate (outer diameter) of 304/384 random read/write IOPS, and a 4.16 ms average latency.

The host system considers an Exos 2X14 as two logical drives that are independently addressable.

The drive features a 7200 RPM spindle speed, is equipped with a 256MB multisegmented cache, and uses a single-port SAS 12Gb/s interface. Seagate's Exos 2X14 14TB hard drive is essentially two 7TB HDDs in one standard hermetically sealed helium-filled 3.5-inch chassis. Seagate Describes First Mach.2 HDD: the Exos 2X14

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