Seagate has launched its Exos X storage arrays, powered by Seagate’s sixth generation controller architecture. The new Exos X systems feature up to twice the performance of the previous generation, the developers say. To help protect the stored data, Exos X systems incorporate ADAPT (Advanced Distributed Autonomic Protection Technology) erasure coding with Seagate’s self-healing storage technology ADR (Autonomous Drive Regeneration).
The Exos X are petabyte-scale, rack-mounted block storage enclosures that aggregate and virtualise dozens to hundreds of hard drives and SSDs. They’re for conventional enterprise data centres as well as private clouds. Seagate’s ADAPT erasure encoding minimises data redundancy overhead and accelerates recovery time with system rebuilds, the makers say. Paired with ADAPT, ADR can continuously monitor, diagnose, and automatically rebuild the drives in-place without the need for a manual swap. This allows data centres to reduce physical drive handling, human intervention and computer e-waste.
The new VelosCT controller performs at up to 725,000 IOPS (input/outputs per second) at 1ms latency, sequential read speeds up to 12GB/s and writes at 10GB/s.
Ken Claffey, senior vice president, systems at Seagate said: “Leveraging Seagate’s unique vertical integration that spans from silicon device design and manufacturing to services, we bring new levels of innovation and value to the enterprise storage systems market. Featuring the new controller engineered and built by Seagate, the new Exos X systems can achieve a new level of RAID array availability, reliability, and performance for better efficiency while significantly reducing administrative burden. Exos X systems will help our data center customers form a future-proof data management strategy.”
And Dorin Vanderjack, Vice President and General Manager, Intel United States OEM & Strategic Account Sales, said: “We are delighted with the introduction of Seagate’s new RAID controller that delivers high performance and cost-effective system solutions. At this time of unprecedented data growth, integrating Intel® Xeon® D Processors with Seagate’s enhanced ASIC-based architecture improves customers’ total cost of ownership and helps drive greater business value from their hardware and from their data.”
The Exos X systems also provide support for the Redfish and Swordfish open standard management protocols. The Exos X 2U12, 2U24, and the high-density enclosure 5U84, with the new VelosCT ASIC controllers are available via Seagate distributors.
