12 TB HDD Enterprise Capacity hard drive came to market from Seagate. Seagate has introduced its second generation of helium-filled mechanical hard drives with 12 TB capacity.
Especially targeted to enterprise and cloud applications that are the most demanding in terms of capacity. So the new hard drives will store up to 12TB of data. The new hard drive unit uses eight plates, which is more than the first generation model from Seagate. But its power consumption still stays below the usual typical air-filled hard drives.
Seagate Enterprise Capacity v7 Series 12 TB 3.5-inch hard drives are based on the company’s seventh-generation enterprise-class platform. With multiple functions designed to reduce errors and reduce the impact of vibrations in internal components and improve the safety and resistance of the device.
Traditionally, such drives have more robust mounting mechanisms for internal components. Such as the engine, and also the various vibration and environmental sensors which ensures performance and reduce risks.
12 TB HDD Enterprise Capacity Seagate Architecture
In addition, new hard drives 12 TB support Power Choice technology that helps managing inactive power consumption. New Power Balance technology enables data center operators to balance power consumption and IOPS performance of hard drives.
When compared to the previous company’s HDDa capacity, the new ones support RSA2048 firmware signed with a secure download. And also there is a diagnostic (SD & D) function that prevents unauthorized access, modification or installation of altered firmware.
The new Enterprise Capacity v7 is a 3.5-inch 12TB hard drives have eight perpendicular magnetic recording plates (PMR). While each one has a capacity of 1.5TB. It comes with 16 heads and spin at 7,200 rpm. The cache memory rises up to 256 MB for each drive.
Due to the higher area density and some other optimizations, this new generation has up to 261 MB/s of maximum sustained transfer rate. Which is slightly higher than the helium units introduced last year. The random write performance of the new drives is also slightly higher as compared to its predecessors (it is still worth noting that 400 IOPS is far behind any basic SSD by several orders of magnitude).
In addition, despite the addition of one plate, the maximum operating power of the new Seagate 12 TB Enterprise Capacity Helium hard drives seems to be similar to that of the first generation helium hard drives which takes around 8 W – 9 W power. At the same time, the average standby power consumption of new hard disks 12 TB is slightly higher than its predecessors.