Seagate 16To (7200RPM) 256MB Exos X16 Enterprise SATA 6Gb/s

Exos™ X
The most scalable drives in the Datasphere.

For everything hyperscale, there's Exos™ X — the most powerful way to access the datasphere and harness the full potential of the Cloud. Exos X12 and Exos X10 enterprise hard drives integrate the latest technology in support of a scalable, secure and reliable cloud data centre.^* Specifically designed to work in highly scalable environments requiring low power consumption and weight, Exos X series hard drives perform consistently while scaling to meet the stringent TCO requirements of most cloud-based data centres.

^*Formerly Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD (Helium)

Scalable. Responsive. Innovative
Exos X16 Series
• Stores up to 12.8 PB in a 42U rack with helium technology
• Leading sustained data rate 261 MB/s
• Random write of 440 IOP/s
• Reduced complexity with FastFormat™
• Reduced TCO with low weight of 670g and 0.31 W/TB
• 550 TB/yr — 10× the workload rating of desktop drives
• Seagate Secure^® encryption technology

Best-Fit Applications
• Hyperscale applications/cloud data centres
• Massive scale-out data centres OLTP and HPC 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

Built-in Data Protection
Seagate Secure Instant Secure Erase drives simplify drive repurposing and disposal, protect data-at-rest and help comply with corporate and federal data security mandates.

Prevent unauthorised access and safeguard stored data with three levels of security, including Secure Downloads & Diagnostics (SD&D), TCG compliant Self-Encrypting Drive and government-grade FIPS/Common Criteria tamper-resistant hard drive.^*

Data Management Made Easy
• Simplify infrastructure management with the FastFormat feature for advanced format (4Kn and 512e)
• Unprecedented power savings during idle times with PowerChoice technology for TCO improvement
• Use Instant Secure Erase for easy drive disposal and repurposing if and when needed

^*Seagate Secure Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) are not available in all models or countries. May require TCG-compliant host or controller support.