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 deliver very high hard drive performance with enhanced write caching, making them 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 reduce your cooling and energy costs per gigabyte, as they offer high capacity with low power consumption and a small form factor. With Seagate's integrated PowerChoice technology, you can further lower your power costs and tailor your systems to meet your specific needs. This results in up to 35% lower power consumption, which is especially beneficial for companies with many hard drives.
Interface version | SATA III |
Storage Technology | CMR |
Memory Scope of application | Enterprise |
Max. Speed | 7200 RPM |
Interface | SATA |
Cache | 256 MB |
Sustained Speed HDD | 270 MB/s |
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Item number | 13961890 |
Manufacturer | Seagate |
Category | Hard drives |
Manufacturer no. | ST18000NM000J |
Release date | 21/9/2020 |
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Memory Scope of application | Enterprise |
Interface | SATA |
Interface version | SATA III |
Form factor | 3.5" |
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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Climate contribution |
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...