Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the needs of the hyperscale storage market. As the highest-performing hard drive in the Seagate® X class, the Exos® 2X18 enterprise dualactuator hard drive utilises MACH.2™ technology enabling up to 2� the performance of an enterprise single-actuator 3.5-inch hard drive.
Highest Performance for Highest Rack Space Efficiency
MACH.2 technology enables up to 2� the performance of an enterprise singleactuator 3.5-inch hard drive
Highest 18 TB hard drive performance, making it the logical choice for cloud data centre and massive scale-out data centre applications. Available as two independently addressable, 9 TB logical units for SAS or one 18 TB logical device for SATA
PowerBalance™ feature optimises IOPS/Watt
Helium sealed-drive design delivers lower total cost of ownership through lower power and weight
Next-generation helium side-sealed weld technology for added handling robustness and leak protection
Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance
Latest hermetic interconnect technology supporting higher data rate heads and higher pin counts for extreme thermal conditions
Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating
- Hyperscale applications/cloud data centres
- Massive scale-out data centres
- Big data applications
- content delivery networks
- Mainstream enterprise external storage arrays
- Distributed file systems, including Hadoop and Ceph
- Enterprise backup and restore - D2D, virtual tape
- Centralised surveillance
- High-bandwidth streaming applications
