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

When purchasing, choose SATA (there is also E-SATA or whatever; it is a server; there is a chance it won't work for you; I have feedback from my mother; nevertheless, I didn't test anything, so it works for me.)

Revealing my product experience.With its pros: Volume and durability of Seagate NAS/Enterprise drives. Its cons: Noise increase expected from helium-filled disks.

I've been seeking for solutions to the problem of noisy head parking, but so far none of the suggestions that I've discovered have been of any use. Seagate Support does not provide a solution that is ready to use out of the box. Whoever found a solution to this issue, please let me know whether it was successful. You've Got Pros: Naturally, the storage capacity of the disk was the reason why it was purchased. Additionally, due to the fact that it is a helium drive, it is exceptionally quick for

Pros below: Good wheels, all from this company. I bought the first one for 18 TB. Some cons: three broken sectors after a month of work, reassigned looking forward to further work

The system recalculates to 16.2 honest terabytes 1560 hours - normal flight. All hard drives will die. This one is still alive.

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.