Video: Choose the Right Drive for the Right Workload

  • All hard drives are not the same

All hard drives are not the same

All storage is the same, right? Wrong!

Some folks misuse storage, thinking all hard drives are the same. But when it comes to specialized applications, Seagate goes the extra mile to ensure your drive will perform with tough loads for the long haul — when you choose the right drive for your workload.

Every hard drive, in fact, has a workload-rate limit, which is defined in part by the number of terabytes a drive can read or write in a year.

A standard desktop or laptop drive, for example, can handle about 55TB per year, when it’s being used on average 40 hours a week. Step up to a NAS or surveillance drive and the workload-rate limit jumps up to 180TB per year, with drives running 24X7. And for nearline drives designed for data centers, the workload-rate limit goes up to 550TB per year.

You’re wise enough to know the difference

In fact, it’s risky (to the point of being foolhardy) to run a standard desktop hard drive under tough enterprise workloads — it can and will lead to premature drive failure. You can replace up to six standard desktop hard drives in the time it takes to wear out one enterprise drive that was carefully designed and built for that environment.

Seagate’s enterprise and client-computing experts have teamed up to produce a series of videos to help educate customers on why it’s so important to pick the right drive for the right job.

We shared a video “What Makes HDDs Different?” with you a couple weeks back. Now check out today’s new video below, to learn more about how drives are designed and built differently, to perform reliably for different workloads — including Desktop, NAS, Surveillance, Data Center, Private and Public Cloud.

 

 

Seagate creates space for the human experience by innovating how data is stored, shared and used. Learn more at www.seagate.com.

2017-01-24T16:08:10+00:00

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