Seagate's Exos enterprise-class hard drives are designed for the most demanding workloads, providing highly reliable drives for servers, storage systems, and business-oriented NAS applications. Drives from the Exos X family enable maximum storage capacity and the most efficient rack utilization. As the flagship of Seagate's X-class, the Exos X18 drives are among the highest-capacity hard drives in the fleet. Exos X drives offer exceptional hard drive performance with enhanced write caching and are ideal for OLTP, Hadoop, Ceph, and HPC applications. Experience the industry's best IOPS/Watt by optimizing your storage with Seagate's PowerBalance feature. Seagate's enterprise hard drives lower your cooling and energy costs per gigabyte, as they provide high capacity with low power consumption and a small form factor. Thanks to Seagate's integrated PowerChoice technology, you can further reduce your power costs and tailor your systems to your specific needs. This results in up to a 35% reduction in power consumption, which is especially beneficial for companies with many hard drives.
Interface | SATA III |
Storage Technology | CMR |
Memory Scope of application | Enterprise |
Max. Speed | 7200 RPM |
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Item number | 13961890 |
Manufacturer | Seagate |
Category | Hard drives |
Manufacturer no. | ST18000NM000J |
Release date | 21.9.2020 |
Sales rank in Category Hard drives | 79 of 3444 |
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Memory Scope of application | Enterprise |
Interface | SATA III |
Form factor | 3.5" |
Hard drive height | 20 mm |
Storage capacity | 18 TB |
Cache | 256 MB |
Sustained Speed HDD | 270 MB/s |
Max. Speed | 7200 RPM |
Storage Technology | CMR |
Hard disk filling | Helium |
Hard disk additional functions | Hot plugging |
Maximum operating temperature | 60 °C |
Power consumption (standby) | 5.30 W |
Power consumption | 9.40 W |
Country of origin | China |
Manufacturer commitment | SBTi |
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Scope of delivery | 1 piece |
Length | 14.70 cm |
Width | 10.19 cm |
Height | 2.61 cm |
Weight | 670 g |
Length | 20.80 cm |
Width | 13.20 cm |
Height | 6.30 cm |
Weight | 730 g |
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The Seagate Exos X18 is available with 16 and 18 TBytes, soon to be followed by the 2X18, a version with a split head stack. Those who want an 18 TB Exos drive could just as well go for an Exos X20 with 18 TB. Other versions of the Exos X18 have a SAS interface or can be erased quickly and securely, but those who are only looking for the lowest price will probably get what they want: the 18 TByte...