Seagate Delivers Industry’s First Enterprise-Ready Exos 16TB Hard Drive And Raises The Bar With IronWolf 16TB For NAS

16TB Exos
®
 X16 Hard Drive Provides Solution for High Density Storage Supporting Accelerated Hyperscale Demand and IronWolf 16TB Delivers Highest Capacity for NAS

CUPERTINO, Calif. 
- June 4, 2019 - Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in data storage solutions, today announced it has been actively shipping 16TB helium-based enterprise drives as part of the 
Exos
®
 X16
 family, delivering high performance and record capacity for hyperscale data centers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage ever-increasing amounts of data. The company also updated the 
IronWolf
®
 and IronWolf Pro
 Network Attached Storage (NAS) drive lines with new 16TB capacity models.

The need for hyperscale, cloud, and NAS storage solutions continues to rise to unprecedented levels. In fact, a 
recent IDC whitepaper
 sponsored by Seagate predicts that the Global Datasphere -