Seagate Exos X18 3.5" 16TB SAS Hard Drive

Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the demand for hyperscale cloud scalability. As the flagship of the Seagate X class, the Exos X18 enterprise hard drives are the highest-capacity hard drives in the fleet.

Market-leading 18TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytes per rack

Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching, making it the logical choice for cloud data center and massive scale-out data center applications

Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency

PowerBalance feature optimizes Watts/TB

Maximize total cost of ownership savings through lower power and weight with helium sealed-drive design

Proven helium side-sealing weld technology for added handling robustness and leak protection

Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance

Data protection and security Seagate Secure features for safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement

Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating

Best-Fit Applications

• Scalable hyperscale applications/cloud data centers
• Massive scale-out data centers
• Big data applications
• High-capacity density RAID storage
• Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
• Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
• Enterprise backup and restore D2D, virtual tape
• Centralized surveillance