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 8 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

Technical Information

• Storage Capacity 8 TB
• Disk Format 512e/4Kn

Drive Performance

Buffer 256 MB

Spindle Speed (rpm) 7200