Seagate 3.5'' SATAIII 18TB HDD 7200RPM ST18000NM000J

Overview

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.

Maximum Storage Capacity for Highest Rack Space Efficiency

• 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 centres
• 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
• Centralised surveillance