Seagate Exos X18 Enterprise Class, 18TB, Enterprise Internal Hard Drive, SATA, 3,5" 6Gbit/s, 128MB cache (ST18000NM004J)

Reviews

Mark

Of course, they are quite loud compared to SSDs, but the volume and speed for this price is more than enough for movies and music. (I always would recommend buying twice the storage you need so everything is backed up!

Aurélien

My transfer rate of data to these drives (directly from another SATA drive on same machine) was about 160MBytes per second. I bought 4 pieces, installed level 0 with a software raid array on Linux, the volume of the array is 72 TB, the speed is 750 megabytes per second!

Lionel

Consequence , have to send it back , pay 16 Euros for transport and wait approximately 2 week to get refund. 18th Dec 2022: I noticed the price has since dropped to under £280 a few days after my purchase, which makes it even better value. I bought 9 of them , no problem with the 8 fist , work well from the beginning. Just for a lack of care.

Ack

)First impressions is that this is a bit noiser than my old drive, and generates a bit more heat. After my 4TB HDD died after almost 10 years of beign used almost 24x7, and seeing 18TB for just under £300, I took the plunge and ordered 2 of these.

Cednaish

Plugging the drive directly into the SATA ports on my servers however worked fine, and after a day, my data was copied across and everything is working fine. .

Cliente Amazon

However nothing to be concerned. Perhaps I was unlucky, but out of my 2, one was DOA, which has been shipped back to Amazon and awaiting a refund.