Reliable Data Center-Grade Hard Drive Within Reach

The Exos 7E2 hard drives support up to 2 TB per drive, 1 offering economical storage for traditional 512-native infrastructures requiring a highly reliable enterprise hard drive. Exos 7E2 provides the most cost-effective, reliable access to unstructured data in bulk storage applications. 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, rocksolid reliability, ironclad security and low TCO for demanding 24×7 operations.

The Exos 7E2 hard drives are proven, enterprise-class hard drives with enterprise-grade reliability backed by a 2 million hour MTBF rating. With state-of-the-art cache, on the fly error-correction algorithms and rotational vibration design, the Exos 7E2 helps ensure consistent performance in replicated and RAID multi-drive systems.

Best-Fit Applications:

• Legacy mainstream applications requiring 512n block size
• Hyperscale applications/cloud data centres with replicated storage
• Scale-out data centres and Big Data analytics
• High-capacity density RAID storage
• Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays (SAN, NAS, DAS)
• Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
• Enterprise backup and restore D2D, virtual tape
• Centralised surveillance

Specifications:

• Brand: Seagate
• Model: ST2000NM0008
• Interface: 6Gb/s SATA
• Average Latency: 4.16ms
• Form Factor: 3.5"
• RPM: 7200 RPM
• Capacity: 2TB
• Cache: 128MB