Internal Hard Drive Seagate EXOS X24 Enterprise ST24000NM002H 3.5" 24TB

Seagate Exos X24 ST24000NM002H 3.5-inch 24TB Enterprise Internal Hard Drive

The Seagate Exos X24 ST24000NM002H is a 24TB 3.5-inch enterprise internal hard drive with a SATA 6Gb/s interface, a 7200 RPM spindle speed and a 512MB cache. It uses a helium-sealed design and is built for continuous 24x7 operation.

According to Seagate, the Exos X family targets cloud and large-scale data centers, big data applications, high-density RAID storage, distributed file systems such as Hadoop and Ceph, enterprise backup and restore, and centralized surveillance. The ST24000NM002H is a SATA model with a single interface port.

The drive ships in the 512e format and can be switched to 4Kn with Seagate's FastFormat routine. Switching erases all data on the drive, so it should be done before data is stored, and data must be aligned to 4K sectors to benefit from the performance gain. The drive's weight per the manufacturer is 685 g.

Key features

• 24TB in a single drive - High capacity for better storage density in the rack: 24TB in one 3.5-inch drive.
• SATA 6Gb/s and 7200 RPM - A SATA 6Gb/s connection with a sustained read transfer rate of up to 285 MB/s (272 MiB/s) and a 7200 RPM spindle speed.
• Helium-sealed design - A helium-sealed design lowers power use and drive weight, and a side-sealing weld adds handling robustness and leak protection.
• PowerChoice and PowerBalance - Power management technologies that improve the balance between performance and power draw (watts per TB) and help lower operating cost.
• Enterprise-class reliability - A mean time between failures (MTBF) of 2,500,000 hours, an annualized failure rate of 0.35% at full 24x7 operation and 8,760 power-on hours per year.
• Security and sensors - Digital environmental sensors monitor the internal operating conditions of the drive, and Seagate Instant Secure Erase (ISE) allows safe, quick and affordable drive retirement, together with firmware verification (RSA 3072).

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