Seagate
Exos X16 16TB 3.5" SATA Enterprise Internal Hard Drive (ST16000NM001G)

Seagate Exos X16

Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the needs of the hyperscale storage market. As the flagship of the Seagate X class, the Exos X16 enterprise hard drives are the highest-capacity hard drives in the fleet.

Best-Fit Applications

• Hyperscale applications/cloud datacentres
• Massive scale-out data centres
• 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
• Centralised surveillance 

Maximum Storage Capacity for Highest Rack Space Efficiency

Industry's first 16 TB drive for 33% more petabytes per rack

Highest 16 TB hard drive performance with enhanced caching, making it perfect for cloud data centre and massive scale-out data centre applications

Hyperscale SATA model tuned for large data transfers and low latency

PowerBalance feature optimises Watts/TB

Helium sealed-drive design delivers lower total cost of ownership through lower power and weight

Next-generation 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