Seagate is all about 14TB HDDs, as it launches a range of drives covering both all enterprise applications-- the the IronWolf and IronWolf Pro NAS drives, BarraCuda Pro desktop drive, the surveillance-optimised SkyHawk and Exos X14 datacentre model.
The Iron Wolf/Iron Wolf Pro drives are built for multi-user environments, and promise best-in-class performance for always-on environments. They claim a workload rating of 300TB/year, and are optimised with AgileArray firmware for NAS servers to offer benefits such as RAID performance, dual-plane balance, rotational vibration (RV) sensors, advanced power management and error recovery control.
Meanwhile the BarraCuda Pro 14TB 3.5-inch HDD is ideal for demanding customers as well as creative professionals and small businesses handling large amounts of data. It offers 7200 RPM spin speed, 250mb/s data transfer rates and up to 256MB cache powered via Multi-Tier Caching Technology (MTC). As such, Seagate says it can handle 8K video editing or the large file transfers to an attached backup.
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