Stefan Mileschin

With new MACH.2 and HAMR technologies

Seagate has officially announced its newest Exos 14 HDD at the OCP summit, a helium-filled 14TB HDD aimed at the enterprise market, which uses new MACH.2 Multi Actuator and HAMR technologies, allowing it to hit a record 480MB/s sustained throughput.

According to details provided by Seagate, the new 3.5-inch 14TB helium-filled Exos X14 features Seagate's new MACH.2 Multi Actuator technology which actually doubles IOPS performance in a single hard drive by using two independent actuators and enabling parallelism of data flows from a single hard drive. Demonstrated at the OCP summit, Seagate's Exos X14 managed to hit a sustained throughput of 480MB/s, which is the fastest ever from a single hard drive and 60 percent faster than a 15k drive.

“MACH.2 Multi Actuator technology is an IOPS-per-Terabyte win for Seagate and for our cloud provider partners,” said Tony Glavis, Seagate marketing initiative manager for Enterprise applications, discussing the collaboration with Microsoft. “Our purpose is to accelerate technology innovation for performance in the cost-sensitive storage tier — and MACH.2 does that by solving response time for the end user and enabling our cloud partners to attain SLA requirements. Continued advances in capacity with HAMR and increased IOPS with MACH.2 work together to improved cost efficiencies while sustaining performance.”

In addition to the new MACH.2 technology, the Exos X14 will also feature Seagate's new HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) technology with read/write heads that have achieved impressive reliability results, surpassing requirements by a factor of 20.

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