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Exos PROTECT

Heavy-Duty Durability for Relentless Workloads

Safeguard data-critical workloads with RAID-based, hardware-enforced protection. From financial services to healthcare, Exos PROTECT systems safeguard data-critical workloads with redundancy, resilience and consistent performance. Advanced RAID arrays reduce interventions and elevate uptime — meeting stringent availability and governance requirements across distributed environments.

Order Ahead — Global Storage Shortages Are Stretching Lead Times to 6+ Months. AI hyperscalers have locked up the majority of Seagate and Western Digital's hard drive production. If you'll need PROTECT capacity in six months' time, the right moment to order is now.
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PROTECT What Matters Most

Keep data available, compliant and working — without adding complexity to your operations.

Protection, Enforced

Safeguard data-critical workloads at the hardware layer with RAID-based protection.

Availability, Assured

Keep systems online with architectures designed to eliminate single points of failure.

Performance, Consistent

Sustain dependable performance during rebuilds, maintenance and real-world disruption.

Recovery, Accelerated

Shorten recovery windows with architectures designed to restore protection quickly after failure.

Compliance, Built In

Meet regulatory, retention and governance requirements with systems designed for data integrity, availability and long-term retention.

Reliability, Proven

Rely on enterprise-grade systems designed for long lifecycles and shared infrastructure use.


PROTECT With Confidence

Exos PROTECT brings Seagate's storage leadership to RAID-based systems engineered to keep critical data protected, available and ready when it matters most. In other words — you get lasting confidence in the infrastructure behind your organisation's data. Seagate's experience designing and delivering enterprise storage at scale helps ensure the resilience, durability and operational consistency data-critical environments require. The result is a protection platform customers can trust to perform under pressure and over time.

Core Platform Advantages

  • Hardware-enforced RAID with ADAPT technology — accelerates rebuilds with minimal performance impact, reducing data exposure while maintaining availability.
  • Active-active dual-controller architecture — delivers continuous data access with no single point of failure for high-availability environments.
  • Predictable performance during failure + recovery — helps sustain throughput and responsiveness during rebuilds and degraded states.
  • Fully redundant, hot-swappable components — supports non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades with less operational risk.
  • Enterprise-grade availability + durability — provides five-nines-class design for long-running, data-critical systems.
  • High-density, protected storage configurations — enables efficient scaling of production and nearline storage in a compact footprint.
  • Integrated management + hybrid-ready — simplifies administration while supporting protected storage across edge, data centre and multi-site environments.
  • End-to-end Seagate engineering — delivers proven reliability and predictable behaviour in large-scale enterprise deployments.

Which PROTECT System Is Right for You?

We've laid them out side by side so you can quickly spot what fits your needs.

Feature Exos EP2U12 Exos EP2U24 Exos EP5U84
Form factor 2U 2U 5U
Max drives 12 24 84
Drive interface SAS SAS SAS
Host external ports Four per controller, eight per system — SFP+/SFP28 or mini-SAS HD
Host interface 12 Gb SAS · 32/16 Gb FC · 25/10 GbE iSCSI · 10GBASE-T Auto to 1Gb
Included software Virtual/linear pools, thin provisioning, SSD read cache, encryption, auto-tiering, snapshots, async replication
Data protection Improved ADAPT, NRAID, RAID 0/1/5/6/10
Expansion Up to 144 drives Up to 144 drives Up to 336 drives
Power supply 580W (80 PLUS Platinum) 580W (80 PLUS Platinum) 2,200W (80 PLUS Platinum)
Dimensions (H×W×D) 88.9 × 483 × 630 mm 88.9 × 483 × 630 mm 220 × 483 × 933 mm
Weight with drives 30 kg 30 kg 135 kg
Hot-swappable Drives, PCMs, I/O modules Drives, PCMs, I/O modules Drives, PSUs, cooling modules, I/O modules

Not sure which PROTECT configuration fits your availability and compliance requirements? Talk to Fortuna Data. As a Seagate systems partner we can help you scope the right combination for your workload, environment and budget — and given current lead times, the earlier the better.

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Global Shortages Mean Longer Lead Times

AI demand has stretched enterprise HDD lead times to 6+ months industry-wide. Talk to us early.

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