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.
Keep data available, compliant and working — without adding complexity to your operations.
Safeguard data-critical workloads at the hardware layer with RAID-based protection.
Keep systems online with architectures designed to eliminate single points of failure.
Sustain dependable performance during rebuilds, maintenance and real-world disruption.
Shorten recovery windows with architectures designed to restore protection quickly after failure.
Meet regulatory, retention and governance requirements with systems designed for data integrity, availability and long-term retention.
Rely on enterprise-grade systems designed for long lifecycles and shared infrastructure use.
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.
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.