About this item
Industry's first 16TB drive for 33% more petabytes per rack
Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency
Next-generation helium side-sealing weld technology for added handling robustness and leak protection
Manufacturer recertified
Seagate Exos X18 16 TB SATA Hard Drives
Highlights
- Standard model, ships in 512e format, Fast Format allows either 512e or 4Kn sector size
- Helium sealed-drive design delivers lower total cost of ownership through lower power and weight
- Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance
- Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by a 2.5M-hr MTBF rating
Best-Fit Applications
- 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