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
- 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
