Data storage systems

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

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Protection, enforced
Safeguard data‑critical workloads at the hardware layer with RAID‑based protection.
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Availability, assured
Keep systems online with architectures designed to eliminate single points of failure.
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Performance, consistent
Sustain dependable performance during rebuilds, maintenance and real‑world disruption.
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Recovery, accelerated
Shorten recovery windows with architectures designed to restore protection quickly after failure.
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Compliance, built in
Meet regulatory, retention and governance requirements with systems designed for data integrity, availability and long‑term retention.
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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
Form factor

2U

Form factor

2U

Form factor

5U

Max drives
Max drives
Max drives

12 

Max drives

24 

Max drives

84 

Drive interface
Drive interface
Drive interface

SAS/SATA 

Drive interface

SAS/SATA 

Drive interface

SAS 

Host/expansion I/O ports
Host/expansion I/O ports
Host/expansion I/O ports

Three universal ×4 12 Gb/s mini-SAS HD connectors (SFF-8644) per I/O module 

Host/expansion I/O ports

Three universal ×4 12 Gb/s mini-SAS HD connectors (SFF-8644) per I/O module 

Host/expansion I/O ports

Three universal ×4 12 Gb/s mini-SAS HD connectors (SFF-8644) per I/O module 

Expansion
Expansion
Expansion

Up to 144 drives 

Expansion

Up to 144 drives 

Expansion

Up to 336 drives 

Power supply
Power supply
Power supply

580W (Gold/Platinum) 

Power supply

580W (Gold/Platinum) 

Power supply

2,200W (Titanium/Platinum) 

Dimensions
Dimensions
Dimensions

88.9 mm x 483 mm x 630 mm 

Dimensions

88.9 mm x 483 mm x 630 mm 

Dimensions

220 mm x 483 mm x 933 mm 

Weight
Weight
Weight

26kg 

Weight

24kg 

Weight

135kg 

Hot-swappable
Hot-swappable
Hot-swappable

Drives, PCMs, I/O modules 

Hot-swappable

Drives, PCMs, I/O modules 

Hot-swappable

Drives, PSUs, cooling modules, I/O modules 

Use case
Use case
Use case

Compact modular expansion 

Use case

Compact modular expansion 

Use case

High-density storage with drawer design 

PROTECT solutions