Demartek Evaluation – Accelerate Business Results with Seagate EXOS 15E900 and 10E2400 Hard Drives - PDF

Executive Summary

In today’s world of digital transformation, organizations require high performance compute and hard disk drive (HDD) options that can match a broad spectrum of workloads. Equally essential in this world of flat and shrinking budgets is the application of the appropriate cost/performance HDDs to the workload for the best return on investment. Seagate provides an interesting twist on HDD technology that contributes some significant performance benefits in real world applications.

Every application has its own I/O demands, whether highly sequential, large block archiving and backups, random transactional processing, latency sensitive real time data analysis, or something altogether different. Storage and compute systems have to meet or exceed service expectations to keep businesses competitive. Where performance is essential, the Seagate Exos 15E900 and Exos 10E2400 SAS drives represent the peak in HDD technology. These newest additions to the HDD market promise performance improvements in throughput and response times for new storage deployments or as drop-in replacements. In keeping with evolving standards, these drives come in legacy native 512-byte sector format (512B) and the newer four kilobyte sector size in a 512-byte emulation mode (512e) for easy integration into existing enterprise infrastructure.

This new generation of enterprise HDDs is also available with the right amount of flash per drive for enhanced I/O caching. Critical application workloads will benefit from a significant performance advantage without breaking the bank.

Seagate commissioned Demartek to independently evaluate the new Exos 15E900 HDDs in a variety of use cases to help IT experts make informed technology choices. Many workloads, such as OLTP, Webserver, Virtual Desktop, or other random read/write tasks, as shown within the test results below, may be best served by enterprise HDDs that can offer an extra performance boost with a flash cache.