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 12 TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytes per rack

Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching, making it the logical choice for cloud data centre and massive scale-out data centre applications

Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency

PowerBalance™ feature optimises Watts/TB

Maximise 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

Features

• With 12 TB capacity you have ample space for storing millions of images, hundreds of hours of video or for music lovers, up to a million songs
• The high-read speed of 270 MB/s maximizes system performance and saves time while you are doing complex tasks
• With the high-write speed of 258 MB/s, get a quick response when updating or transferring files
• Have data stored faster with SATA/600 interface that optimizes burst performance
• Experience rapid processing speed with 256 MB cache buffer

Network & Communication

• Wireless LAN N0

Interfaces/Ports

• Drive Interface SATA
• Drive Interface Standard SATA/600

Miscellaneous

• Device Supported Storage System
• Video Surveillance System

Technical Information

• Storage Capacity 12 TB
• Disk Format 512e/4Kn

Drive Performance

Buffer 256 MB

Maximum Read Transfer Rate 271 MB/s

Maximum Write Transfer Rate 258 MB/s

Random 4KB Read 170000IOPS

Random 4KB Write 550000IOPS

Spindle Speed (rpm) 7200