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Seagate Exos X18 ST16000NM000J — 16 TB Enterprise-Grade HDD
The Seagate Exos X18 ST16000NM000J is a high-capacity, high-performance 3.5″ internal HDD designed for demanding storage environments — from cloud data centers and enterprise servers to high-density NAS arrays, backup systems, video surveillance rigs, and large-scale RAID deployments.
What’s the price?
Shenzhen Chengsuchuang quoted price unit:$450. New original condition. However if you can accept refurbished condition, price can be cheaper.
Key Specifications
Capacity: 16 TB
Accelerator
Form Factor: 3.5-inch HDD
Accelerator
Interface: SATA III 6 Gb/s (SATA 600)
Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
Cache / Buffer: 256 MB
Sustained Transfer Rate: up to ~270 MB/s (typical)
Average Latency: ~4.16 ms
Designed for 24×7 continuous operation, making it suitable for always-on servers, storage arrays, or large data workloads.
Helium-sealed drive design reduces internal friction and heat, boosting reliability, lowering power consumption, and improving long-term durability.
Built-in digital environmental sensors help monitor drive conditions for stability and performance.
Enterprise-grade reliability: MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of around 2.5 million hours, and an extremely low uncorrectable error rate, making it ideal for mission-critical and data-intensive use cases.
Ideal Use Cases
The Exos X18 ST16000NM000J is especially well suited for:
Massive scale-out storage systems in enterprise data centers or cloud infrastructure.
High-capacity RAID arrays or NAS (Network-Attached Storage) for businesses or prosumers needing large shared storage.
Backup and archival storage, data backup to disk (D2D), virtual tape libraries.
Big data applications, distributed file systems (e.g. Hadoop, Ceph), and other storage-heavy workloads.
Video surveillance storage or media archive where reliability and capacity are paramount.
