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.
Exos X Series Hard Drives
The most scalable drives in the datasphere, Exos X series hard drives integrate the latest technology in support of a secure and reliable cloud data centre.
Scalable. Responsive. Innovative
Designed to handle the most rigorous workloads, the Seagate Exos X series enterprise class drives are perfect, high-reliability solutions for servers, storage systems, and business-centric NAS systems. Whatever your applications, there’s an Exos drive for it.
Features |
Mean time between failures (MTBF) |
2500000 h |
Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors |
Yes |
Average latency |
4.16 ms |
HDD average transfer rate |
270 MB/s |
HDD sustained transfer rate |
258 MiB/s |
HDD interface transfer rate |
12 Gbit/s |
Storage drive buffer size |
256 MB |
Hot-swap |
Yes |
Component for |
Disk array |
Type |
HDD |
Interface |
SAS |
HDD size |
3.5" |
HDD speed |
7200 RPM |
HDD capacity |
18 TB |
Power |
Operating voltage |
5 / 12 V |
Power consumption (read) |
9.9 W |
Power consumption (write) |
7 W |
Power consumption (idle) |
5.8 W |
Operational conditions |
Non-operating shock |
200 G |
Operating shock |
50 G |
Non-operating vibration |
2.27 G |
Operating temperature (T-T) |
5 - 60 °C |
General |
Product family |
Enterprise |
Product series |
Exos X18 |
Weight & dimensions |
Weight |
670 g |
Height |
26.1 mm |
Depth |
147 mm |
Width |
101.8 mm |
Logistics data |
Harmonized System (HS) code |
84717050 |