The WD Red Pro drives are created specifically for medium or large-scale business customers, supporting up to 24-bay NAS systems and built to handle heavy workloads in 24×7 environments. Looking at the WD Red Pro 22TB model for this review, these drives are perfect for archiving, sharing, and rebuilding RAID arrays on extended operating systems

Seagate has updated its lineup of dual-actuator hard drives (named MACH.2) with the Seagate Exos 2X18. First shipped in 2019, these HDDs owe their speedy performance to its twin actuators via the MACH.2 technology, quoting up to double the performance of competing enterprise single-actuator 3.5-inch hard drives. This makes them ideal for environments like hyperscale

Initially announced back in May, the WD Gold 22TB is the company’s newest CMR HDD with OptiNAND technology. This massive capacity model is specifically designed to lower TCO for organizations, as they can add more capacity to their data centers without affecting the physical footprint (or have the same capacity at a lower physical footprint).

The SkyHawk AI 3.5″ HDD is the latest enterprise hard drive by Seagate optimized for network video recorders with artificial intelligence for edge applications. Offered in a variety of capacities up to 20TB, the industry’s highest capacity, the Seagate SkyHawk AI is designed to be great for large video and surveillance.

Seagate has announced the launch of the new SkyHawk 20TB HDD, a high-capacity drive solution for AI-enabled video imaging and analytics systems. The new drive is specifically designed for network video recorders (NVRs) enabled with AI for edge security applications.

Western Digital has announced that the WD Red Pro 20TB CMR HDD is now available, adding to their previously released 20TB Gold and Ultrastar DC HC560 HDDs. Optimized for NAS enclosures (up to 24 bays) and purpose-built for high-intensity workloads in 24/7 environments, the new WD Red Pro line features OptiNAND technology for more efficient

Offered in capacities up to 20TB, the Exos X20 is Seagate’s (and the industry’s) highest-capacity 3.5-inch enterprise hard drive. This CMR-based drive is targeted at cloud datacenters where it directly competes with the Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC560. We found lots to like about the Exos X20, including helium sealing, a 2.5M-hour MTBF, and a

The Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB is a CMR-based HDD, joining the recently launched WD Gold and Ultrastar DC HC560 20TB HDDs as the industry’s largest capacity data center drives. The new massive IronWolf Pro is a NAS-optimized AgileArray drive that combines RAID reliability and compatibility during the heavy 24×7 NAS workloads.

Seagate has launched the Exos X20 20TB enterprise HDD and IronWolf Pro 20TB CMR-based HDDs. Seagate’s Exos X20 is purpose-built for environments like scalable hyperscale applications/cloud data centers and distributed file systems like Hadoop and Ceph, while IronWolf Pro is a NAS-optimized AgileArray drive that combines RAID reliability and compatibility during the heavy 24×7 NAS