Seagate Exos 12TB Internal Hard Drive Enterprise HDD – 3.5 Inch 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 128MB Cache for Enterprise, Data Center – Frustration Free Packaging (ST12000NM0007)
Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the needs of the hyper scale storage market. As the flagship of the Seagate X class, the Exos X12 enterprise hard drive is the highest-capacity hard drive in the fleet. Product Features High-Reliability Drive for servers, storage systems, and business-centric NAS systems Performance-Optimized for heavy application usage, supports workloads
Seagate manufactures hard drives that specifically address the needs of the hyper scale storage market. As the flagship of the Seagate X class, the Exos X12 enterprise hard drive is the highest-capacity hard drive in the fleet.
Product Features
- High-Reliability Drive for servers, storage systems, and business-centric NAS systems
- Performance-Optimized for heavy application usage, supports workloads of up to 550TB per year-10× that of desktop hard drives
- Designed for 24×7 storage environments and backed by a 2 million hour MTBF rating
- Seagate Enterprise drives are built on 40 years of enterprise workload knowledge and experience
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