Seagate Exos X18 ST12000NM004J 12 TB Hard Drive - Internal - SAS (12Gb/s SAS)

Seagate Exos X18 ST12000NM004J 12 TB Hard Drive - Internal - SAS (12Gb/s SAS)
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

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  Market-leading 18TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytes per rack
  
  
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  Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching, making it the logical choice for cloud data center and massive scale-out data center applications
  
  
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  Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency
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  PowerBalance™ feature optimizes Watts/TB
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  Maximize total cost of ownership savings through lower power and weight with helium sealed-drive design
  
  
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  Proven helium side-sealing weld technology for added handling robustness and leak protection
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  Digital environmental sensors to monitor internal drive conditions for optimal operation and performance
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  Data protection and security- Seagate Secure™ features for safe, affordable, fast, and easy drive retirement
• Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating
  

• 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