Seagate® Exos™ X18 Enterprise Storage: Scalable, Responsive, Innovative.

Maximum Storage Capacity for Highest Rack Space Efficiency

For everything hyper scale, there's Exos™ X - the most powerful way to access the datasphere and harness the full potential of the cloud. Exos X18, 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.

* Formerly Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD (Helium).

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.

• 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
• 5 Year Manufacturer Limited Warranty

Scales to Meet Your Growing Capacity Needs

Seagate Exos™ X18 enterprise hard drives offer the highest rack space efficiency. Enhanced caching makes it perfect for Big Data applications, providing the fastest hard drive data transfers in the datasphere. Hyperscale SATA models are tuned for large data transfers, providing low latency. You can easily customize your bulk storage requirements with innovative technology advancements (PowerBalance™, PowerChoice™ and RAID Rebuild®). Exos X18 drives help provide low data center TCO, and are architected to offer low power and weight. Simplified infrastructure management is possible with FastFormat™ advanced format feature (4Kn and 512e). Advanced Write Caching helps ensure rapid response rates with a 20% boost in random write performance.¹

Innovative Helium Design

The Exos™ X18 hard drive is built on a rock-solid sealed-drive design. A wrought-aluminum base and a helium sealed-drive design with no porosity and uniform density are designed with superior material and wide-weld design for a more robust, hermetically sealed-drive enclosure. Exos™ X18 hard drives incorporate digital environmental sensors for measuring pressure in the drive, helping to ensure high reliability, performance and quality.

Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Data Protection and Security

Seagate is the industry leader in data-at-rest protection with the broadest offering of technologies to help ensure reliable, trusted products. Seagate Secure™ models provide hardware-based security to help protect data-at-rest. With Instant Secure Erase, drive retirement is safe, affordable, fast and easy. Seagate Secure models meet the NIST 800-88 media sanitization specification and support the Trusted Computer Group (TCG) standard.* The X class Exos™ X18 hard drive is a proven, enterprise-class hard drive with maximum reliability backed by a 2.5 million hour MTBF.

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1. FastFormat models ship in 512e format state. When switching from 512e to 4Kn by executing the FastFormat routine, all data on the drive will be deleted. Note that data must be aligned to 4K sectors to see improved performance in 4Kn format.
2. Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated drives available through franchised authorized distributors. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support.
3. Supports Hotplug operation per Serial ATA Revision 3.3 specification.
4. These base deck dimensions conform to the Small Form Factor Standard (SFF-8301) found at www.sffcommittee.org. For connector-related dimensions, see SFF-8323.