Question about Seagate Exos X20

gheini

2 months ago

The Seagate Exos hard drives have a nice aeroplane on the front, which suggests that they are 'Surveillance' hard drives... but most of them say 'Enterprise' or 'NAS' as the application...! So what's the truth?

Virginia Parrotta

2 months ago

Helpful answer

The aircraft is just a Seagate Marketing symbol for the Exos series and has nothing to do with "Surveillance".

- Exos = Enterprise HDDs for data centres: high capacity, 24/7 operation, workloads up to 550 TB/year, SAS or SATA.
- SkyHawk = Surveillance HDDs for video surveillance: optimised for many write streams, 24/7, but lower workload (approx. 180 TB/year).
- IronWolf / IronWolf Pro = NAS HDDs for SOHO/SMB.

So: Exos X20 clearly belongs in the enterprise sector, despite the "aeroplane logo". SkyHawk is used for surveillance systems, not Exos.

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Question about Seagate Exos X20

The Seagate Exos hard drives have a nice aeroplane on the front, which suggests that they are 'Surveillance' hard drives... but most of them say 'Enterprise' or 'NAS' as the application...! So what's the truth?

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