News Seagate Reveals Its Exos X18 HDDs: 18 TB for Exascalers and Datacenters

[Admin]

Seagate uses PMR and TDMR to hit 18 TB.

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[nofanneeded]

18TB harddisks should include onbard 256GB NVME SSD and the interface changed into U.2 instead of SATA/SAS.

 

[neojack]

i wonder how much time it takes to rebuild an array when one of those monsters fails

i mean, even with a raid 6 + hot spare, it should take a very significant time.