Description
The Seagate Exos X18 is a 12TB Serial ATA III Internal Hard Drive that is specifically designed for hyperscale cloud scalability. It is the flagship of the Seagate X class and is the highest-capacity hard drive in the fleet. It is best-suited for scalable hyperscale applications and cloud data centers, massive scale-out data centers, big data applications, and high-capacity density RAID storage. It is also suitable for enterprise external storage arrays, distributed file systems, and enterprise backup and restore.
Seagate Exos X18 3.5-inch 12TB Serial ATA III Internal Hard Drive
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.
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