Review on Seagate Exos X18 18TB HDD ST18000NM000J: High-performance 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch CMR Enterprise Hard Drive - Renewed by Micha Pyra ᠌

Name: Seagate Exos X18 18TB HDD ST18000NM000J: High-performance 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch CMR Enterprise Hard Drive - Renewed
Item: Seagate Exos X18 18TB HDD ST18000NM000J: High-performance 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-Inch CMR Enterprise Hard Drive - Renewed
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

Perfect purchase for me, exactly what I was looking for!

Both of the ordered disks withstood the delivery by the transport company in the factory anti-electrostatic packaging, one and a half layer of bubble wrap and a thin parcel package. Checked by Victoria, there are no bads, as well as failures in reading speed.
Time will show how helium behaves, the fact that this is not the first Seagate model with a helium HDA adds some confidence.

Pros

The usual traditional CMR record, 18 trillion bytes is an impressive amount for 2022. In terms of acoustics, I do not observe any unusually loud or strange noises.