The capacity of mechanical hard drives has grown to 14 TB, but the availability of high-capacity hard drives is still limited. Seagate announced that its enterprise-class Exos X12 12TB helium-filled hard drive has been adopted Tencent, is fully deployed in Tencent cloud business.
Seagate Exos X series is the original Enterprise Capacity 3.5, the flagship enterprise server, data center market, currently includes 12TB, 10TB two versions.
The Exos X12 boasts the industry's lowest power consumption and lightest ultra-capacity hard drive running at only SATA version 7.8W, SAS version 9.3W, and weighs only 705 grams , to meet the growing storage needs of personal and public cloud data centers.
This hard drive uses a standard 3.5-inch CMR design and is used internally 8 discs, 16 heads (1.5TB per disc), And filled with helium to reduce disk friction and drag, making weight less than the traditional hard drive nearly 20%, the rack capacity density can be increased.
The new hard disk interface provides SAS 12Gbps, SATA 6Gbps two options, speed 7200RPM, cache 256MB, Ministry of data transmission rate 261MB/s With an average time between failures of 2.5 million hours, with support for SED, PowerChoice and PowerBalance.
In recent years, Tencent and Seagate have been cooperating closely and almost all of Tencent's products, including mission-critical hard drives, near-line hard drives, cloud drives, backup drives, solid-state hard drives, and so on.
