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Check out Seagate’s collection of business hard disk drives and you’ll see a few of the very best HDDs you can purchase, however one that’s missing from its listings and almost difficult to get ahold of is the Exos X26z.
This 3.5-inch 25TB business disk drive differs from any other, because it’s a host-managed shingled magnetic recording (HM-SMR) system, and does not deal with either Windows or MacOS– the 2 most popular desktop os. Rather, you’ll require a Linux distro to effectively incorporate into your IT facilities.
It’s likewise unobtainable through routine channels and is produced specifically for Seagate’s biggest business client. These drives are truly just beneficial for the biggest hyperscalers in that they can increase the capability per slot by 25% versus standard difficult drives. This is according to Storage Review, which had the ability to get among these mercurial systems through eBay.
How does Seagate’s most significant hard disk drive carry out?
Storage Review checked Seagate’s 25TB disk drive, the biggest presently accessible, in a number of standards versus the company’s 20TB IonWolf Pro gadget.
The X26z HDD handled to strike speeds that were close to The IonWolf Pro on Sequential 128K Read and Sequential 128 Write tests– 274MB/s and 270MB/s respectively,