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DATA SHEET Scalable. Responsive. Innovative. Exos X18 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 18TB HDD offering the highest capacity available for more petabytes per rack1 Highly reliable performance with enhanced caching, making it the logical choice for cloud data center and massive scale-out data center applications 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 Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency PowerBalance™ feature optimizes Watts/TB Maximize 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 Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 5-year limited warranty and 2.5M-hr MTBF rating 1 Compared to 14TB competitive product

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1 FastFormat models ship in 512e format state. When switching from 512e to 4Kn by executing the FastFormat routine, all data on the drive will be deleted. Note that data must be aligned to 4K sectors to see improved performance in 4Kn fomat. 2 Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) and FIPS 140-2 Validated drives available through franchised authorized distributors. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support. 3 Supports Hotplug operation per Serial ATA Revision 3.3 specification 4 These base deck dimensions conform to the Small Form Factor Standard (SFF-8301) found at www.sffcommittee.org....

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