Earlier today Seagate, one of the most well-known brands in storage has launched their newest and the industry’s widest range of 14TB hard drives to broaden their enterprise and specialty drive portfolio. From the Ironwolf and Ironwolf Pro for NAS duties to the Barracuda Pro desktop drive, the surveillance focused Skyhawk drives to the Exos X14 for hyperscale data centers Seagate has added high capacity drives pretty much across the board.
With the release of these drives compared to Toshiba’s offering of ONLY 14TB drives to the datacenter Seagate has made drives available across most of the market segments looking for this much storage. Seagate may just keep the NAND flash-based SSD wolves at bay for a bit longer with offerings like this. Seagate said this is a part of their drive to lead the industry into driving down data storage costs per terabyte through optimization, versatility of application and unmatched capacity. Whether for personal use, creative and design computing, online gaming, or large-scale surveillance systems and hyperscale environments, these drives could end up opening new data management opportunities across a wide range of markets or improve existing markets.
