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New Generation Seagate 16TB Exos X18 Enterprise Drive offers scalable, responsive, innovative design and delivers maximum storage capacity with the highest rack-space efficiency. Protected with Seagate Secure™ technology.

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Specifications

Capacity	18TB, 16TB, 14TB, 12TB
Performance, Sustained Data Rate (SDR)	Up to 270 MB/s
Technology	Helium
SED-FIPS Options	Seagate Secure™ SED, Seagate Secure SED- FIPS, Common Criteria
MTBF	2.5M hours
Limited Warranty	5 years

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Seagate Exos X18 enterprise drives are the highest performing drives in the fleet. These drives specifically address the demand for hyperscale cloud scalability, as well as ideally suited for scale-out data centers, High-capacity density RAID storage, mainstream enterprise NAS and SAN storage arrays, Enterprise backup and restore — D2D, virtual tape, Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph and of course the never-ending demand for Centralized surveillance. Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating.

Maximum Storage Capacity for Highest RackSpace Efficiency

Market-leading 18 TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytesper rack
Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching, making it the logical choice forcloud data centre and massive scale-out data centre applications
Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency
PowerBalance™ feature optimises Watts/TB
Maximise total cost of ownership savings through lower power and weight withhelium sealed-drive design
Proven helium side-sealing weld technology for added handling robustness andleak protection
Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimaloperation and performance
Data protection and security — Seagate Secure™ features for safe, affordable, fastand easy drive retirement
Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hrMTBF rating

Best-Fit Applications

Hyperscale applications/cloud datacenters
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

16TB Seagate Exos Enterprise SATA 6Gb/s ST16000NM000J. Scalable. Responsive. Innovative.

For everything hyperscale, there’s Exos^TM X— the most powerful way to access the datasphere and harness the full potential of the cloud. Exos X16, Exos X12, and Exos X10 enterprise hard drives integrate the latest technology in support of a scalable, secure, and reliable cloud data center.* Specifically designed to work in highly scalable environments requiring low power consumption and weight, the Exos X series hard drives perform consistently while scaling to meet the stringent TCO requirements of most cloud-based data centers.

Exos X18 Series

Datasheet

Stores up to 12.8PB in a 42U rack with helium technology
Leading sustained data rate 261MB/s
Random write of 440 IOP/s
Reduced complexity with FastFormat™
Reduced TCO with low weight of 670g and 0.31 W/TB
550TB/yr—10× the workload rating of desktop drives
Seagate Secure® encryption technology

16TB - Seagate Exos X18 ST16000NM000J