Seagate launches 20TB IronWolf and Exos hard drives

Inside view and cut-view of Seagate's new 20TB HDDs

(Image credit: Seagate)

Seagate has just launched two highly-predictable 20TB hard disk drives (HDD) to help businesses elevate their storage capacities for ii separate use cases.

The Exos X20 20TB and the IronWolf Pro 20TB are conventional magnetic recording (CMR)-based HDDs, which will ship later this month and retail for $669.99/£669 and $649.99/£559.90, respectively.

While much-faster solid-state drives (SSDs) rule the roost in the consumer market, they tin't lucifer HDDs in terms of sheer capacity, which is an all-important factor for enterprise use cases.

Right on schedule

The IronWolf Pro 20TB is purpose-built for heavy network attached storage (NAS) workloads, and offers sustained transfer rates of 285MB/s. Information technology too comes with built-in rotational vibration (RV) sensors, and a three year subscription to Seagate's Rescue Data Recovery Services.

On the other hand, the Exos X20 20TB is designed for hyperscale data centers. Seagate claims information technology congenital the bulldoze with cloud storage in mind, and offers three times the caching functioning of comparable products.

Seagate says the Exos X20 HDD tin can be paired with the recently announced Exos CORVAULT storage arrangement, which can arrange up to 106 Exos enterprise drives in merely seven inches (18 cm) of rack space.

The announcement comes before long after last month's earning's call, in which Seagate CEO Dave Mosley confirmed it was ramping up production of the affordable 20TB HDDs.

Seagate already has a portfolio of 20TB HDDs based on the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) engineering, which it has made available simply to select customers. All the same, the affordable variants are expected to find fix takers in the cost-sensitive SMB segment.

Looking to build a NAS? Check our listing of the best NAS devices, and as well take a await at the all-time high chapters drives

With nigh two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to remember he's TechRadar Pro'southward proficient on the topic. Of form, he'south just equally interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.