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Exos PROTECT

Safeguard data‑critical workloads with RAID‑based, hardware‑enforced protection

Exos PROTECT

Heavy-duty durability for relentless workloads

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.

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

Decades of innovation behind every deployment

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.

Features

Exos EP2U12

Exos EP2U24

Exos EP5U84

Form factor

Form factor
2U

Form factor
5U

Max drives

Max drives
12

Max drives
24

Max drives
84

Drive interface

Drive interface
SAS

Host external ports

Host external ports
Four per controller, eight per system SFP+/SFP28 or mini-SAS HD

Host interface

Host interface
12 Gb SAS

32/16 Gb FC

25/10 GbE iSCSI

10GBASE-T Auto to 1Gb

Included software features

Included software features
Virtual or linear pools

Thin provisioning

SSD read cache

Encryption

Auto-tiering

Snapshots

Asynchronous replication

Data protection options

Data protection options
Improved ADAPT

NRAID

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10

Expansion

Expansion
Up to 144 drives

Expansion
Up to 336 drives

Power supply

Power supply
580W (80 PLUS Platinum)

Power supply
2200W (80 PLUS Platinum)

Dimensions H x W x D

Dimensions H x W x D
88.9 mm x 483 mm x 630 mm

Dimensions H x W x D
220 mm x 483 mm x 933 mm

Weight with drives

Weight with drives
30 kg

Weight with drives
135 kg

Hot-swappable

Hot-swappable
Drives, PCMs, I/O modules

Hot-swappable
Drives, PSUs, cooling modules, I/O modules

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Exos PROTECT

Heavy-duty durability for relentless workloads

PROTECT what matters most

PROTECT with confidence

Decades of innovation behind every deployment

Core platform advantages

Which PROTECT system is right for you?

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