Seagate Exos 2X18 ST18000NM0012 18 TB Hard Drive - 3.5" Internal - SAS (12Gb/s SAS) ST18000NM0012

Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the needs of the hyperscale storage market. As the highest-performing hard drive in the Seagate® X class, the Exos® 2X18 enterprise dualactuator hard drive utilises MACH.2™ technology enabling up to 2� the performance of an enterprise single-actuator 3.5-inch hard drive.

Highest Performance for Highest Rack Space Efficiency

MACH.2 technology enables up to 2� the performance of an enterprise singleactuator 3.5-inch hard drive

Highest 18 TB hard drive performance, making it the logical choice for cloud data centre and massive scale-out data centre applications. Available as two independently addressable, 9 TB logical units for SAS or one 18 TB logical device for SATA

PowerBalance™ feature optimises IOPS/Watt

Helium sealed-drive design delivers lower total cost of ownership through lower power and weight

Next-generation helium side-sealed weld technology for added handling robustness and leak protection

Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance

Latest hermetic interconnect technology supporting higher data rate heads and higher pin counts for extreme thermal conditions

Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating

• Hyperscale applications/cloud data centres
• Massive scale-out data centres
• Big data applications
• content delivery networks
• Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
• Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
• Enterprise backup and restore - D2D, virtual tape
• Centralised surveillance
• High-bandwidth streaming applications