Seagate Exos X24 ST20000NM002H 20 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) - 7200rpm - Hot Pluggable

The Exos X24 3.5" Internal Hard Drive from Seagate offers powerful performance and innovative technology, making it a top choice for data storage solutions worldwide. Built on a platform that has shipped millions of units globally and is deployed in leading cloud service provider solutions, the Exos X24 drives are renowned for their scalability, responsiveness, and innovation. These enterprise-class drives are designed with the highest rack-space efficiency in mind, offering an extreme market-leading capacity. They are protected with Seagate Secure, ensuring trusted peace of mind for customers by providing superior reliability.

With a 550TB/year workload rating and a 2.5M -hour Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), these drives can meet the most demanding storage requirements. The Exos X24 drives also offer customizable power options, including PowerChoice and PowerBalance. These features optimize power consumption during use and idle periods, allowing for a tailored fit to your specific needs. In terms of performance, these drives are nothing short of amazing. They feature advanced write caching and offer up to 285MB/s data transfer rates, providing a significant boost in performance without compromising on capacity. For data security, the Exos X24 drives come equipped with Seagate Instant Secure Erase.

This feature ensures safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement. These drives are scalable, capable of running big data applications to meet hyperscale demands. They offer consistent performance with low latency and repeatable response times, thanks to enhanced caching. With high capacity, they support data analytics capabilities and other dense architectures for the highest rack-space efficiency. The Exos X24 drives are cost-effective, optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) with the lowest cost per terabyte. They are reliable, offering extended reliability with a 2.5M -hour MTBF. Best-fit applications for these drives include scalable hyperscale applications/cloud data centers, massive scale-out data centers, big data applications, high-capacity density RAID storage, mainstream enterprise external storage arrays, distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph, enterprise backup and restore-D2D, virtual tape, and centralized surveillance.