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.

Maximum Storage Capacity for Highest Rack Space Efficiency

Market-leading 18TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytes per rack1
Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching, making it the logical choice for cloud data center and massive scale-out data center applications
Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency
PowerBalance feature optimizes Watts/TB
Maximize total cost of ownership savings through lower power and weight with helium sealed-drive design
Proven helium side-sealing weld technology for added handling robustness and leak protection
Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance
Data protection and security— Seagate Secure features for safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement
Proven enterprise-class reliability with 2.5M-hr MTBF rating

Best-Fit Applications

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