Scalable. Responsive. Innovative.

With Exos X18, you can support data analytics capabilities and other denser architectures for highest rack space efficiency.

Superior Reliability

Enterprise-class drives with a 550 TB/year workload rating and 2.5M-hr MTBF to meet the most demanding storage requirements.

Customisation Power Options

PowerChoice™ and PowerBalance™ for optimised power consumption when in use and idle — customisable to fit your needs.

Amazing Performance

Advanced write caching coupled with up to 270 MB/s data transfer rates provides a boost in performance without compromising on capacity.

Advanced Data Security

Password protection and AES-256 hardware encryption with Seagate Secure™ — for drives you can depend on.

Best-Fit Applications

• Scalable hyperscale applications/cloud data centers
• Massive scale-out data centres
• 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
• Centralised surveillance

Specification 

• Cache - 256
• Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours) - 2,500,000
• Limited Warranty (years) - 5
• Spindle Speed (RPM) - 7200 RPM