Enterprise Drive for Bulk Data Applications

Exos 7E8 hard drives support up to 8 TB per drive, 1 offering bulk data storage for data centre infrastructures requiring a highly reliable enterprise hard drive. Exos 7E8 provides cost-effective, reliable access to unstructured data. Built on field-proven 9th generation conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology, the Exos 7E8 drive helps to catalyse the datasphere, enabling data centre architects and IT professionals to deliver trusted performance, rock-solid reliability, ironclad security and low TCO for demanding 24×7 operations.

Exos 7E8 drives are backed by a 2 million hour MTBF rating and support workloads of
550 TB per year — 10× that of desktop hard drives. With state-of-the-art cache, on-thefly
error-correction algorithms and rotational vibration design, the Exos 7E8 helps
ensure consistent performance in replicated and RAID multi-drive systems.

Best-Fit Applications:

• Hyperscale applications/cloud data centres
• Massive scale-out data centres
• OLTP and HPC 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
• Centralised surveillance

Specifications:

• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST1000NM0055
• Interface: 6Gb/s SATA
• Average Latency: 4.16ms
• Sector Size: 512n
• Form Factor: 3.5"
• RPM: 7200 RPM
• Capacity: 1TB
• Cache: 128MB