| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 18TB |
| Standard Model Number | ST18000NE000 |
| Interface | SATA 6Gb/s |
| Features | |
| Drive Bays Supported | Up to 24-bay |
| Recording Technology | CMR |
| Drive Design (Air or Helium) | Helium |
| Workload Rate Limit (WRL) | 300 |
| Rotational Vibration (RV) Sensors | Yes |
| Cache (MB) | 256 |
| Reliability/Data Integrity | |
| Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF, hours) | 1,200,000 |
| Non-recoverable Read Errors per Bits Read, Max | 1 per 10E15 |
| Power-On Hours (per year) | 8,760 |
| Sector Size (Bytes per Logical Sector) | 512E |
| Rescue Data Recovery Services (years) | 3 |
| Limited Warranty (years) | 5 |
| Performance | |
| Spindle Speed (RPM) | 7,200 |
| Interface Access Speed (Gb/s) | 6.0, 3.0, 1.5 |
| Max. Sustained Transfer Rate OD (MB/s) | 260MB/s |
| Rotational Vibration @ 10-1500 Hz (rad/s) | 12.5 |
| Power Consumption | |
| Startup Current, Typical (12V, A) | 2 |
| Idle Power, Average (W) | 5.2 |
| Average Operating Power (W) | 8 W |
| Standby Mode, Typical (W) | 1 |
| Sleep Mode, Typical (W) | 1 |
| Power Supply Requirements | +12 V and +5 V |
| Environmental/Temperature | |
| Operating Temperature (ambient, min °C) | 0 |
| Operating Temperature (drive reported, max °C) | 65 |
| Non-operating Temperature (ambient, min °C) | -40 |
| Non-operating Temperature (ambient, max °C) | 70 |
| Environmental/Acoustics | |
| Vibration, Non-operating: 10 Hz to 500 Hz (Grms) | 2.27 |
| Acoustics, Idle (typical, measured in Idle 1 state) (dBA) | 20 |
| Acoustics, Seek (typical) (dBA) | 26 |
| Environmental/Shock | |
| Shock, Operating 2 ms (Read/Write) (Gs) | 50/50 Gs |
| Shock, Non-operating, 1 ms and 2 ms (Gs) | 200 |
| Physical | |
| Height (mm/in) | 26.11 mm/1.028 in |
| Width (mm/in, max) | 101.85 mm/4.01 in |
| Depth (mm/in, max) | 146.99 mm/5.787 in |
| Weight (g/lb, typical) | 670 g/1.477 lb |
| Carton Unit Quantity | 20 |
| Cartons per Pallet / Cartons per Layer | 40/8 |