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Seagate ST16000NM001G vs ST16000NM000J

With the introduction of the X18 platform, Seagate introduced a new part number for 16TB Exos drives - ST16000NM000J. It's not much different than the X16 ST16000NM001G

With the introduction of the X18 platform, Seagate introduced a new part number for 16TB Exos drives - ST16000NM000J. It's not much different than the X16 ST16000NM001G

The similarity between 16000NM001G and 16000NM000J

Both have the same workload (550TB per year), reliability (2.5 million hours MTBF), warranty (5 years limited), and of course the same capacity.

Difference  between 16000NM001G and 16000NM000J

First, they are based on a different platform.

ST16000NM001G is on the X16 platform (the highest capacity on X16). It has 9 disks with 18 heads, each disk about 1.8TB.

ST16000NM000J is based on the X18 platform, which has 18TB as the highest capacity. It also has 9 disks with 17 heads, each disk about 2.0TB. So this is the same as an 18TB drive, just with 1 headless.

Secondly, the ST16000NM000J has a slightly higher data transfer rate ( 258MB/s) compared to the ST16000NM001G ( 249 MB /s) due to the higher density.

At the distribution level, the prices seem to be the same for both. Practically, both are almost identical drives, and aside from a slightly better transfer rate, there is no difference. If you are thinking about it, you should go for whatever part number is available.

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10 comments

Akash Jain @ Tue, Nov 29, 22

In reply to Prasanga : Noise levels of X18 and X16 are same as per the manual. They both have 3.2 to 3.4 bels during performance seek and 2.8 to 3.0 bels during ideal

As per the specification sheet, they have the same sound levels.

Prasanga @ Sat, Nov 19, 22

I’m to choose between one of these soon – since everything seem to be the same, are there any difference in noise levels between the two?

RB @ Sun, Nov 06, 22

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you!

Akash Jain @ Mon, Sep 26, 22

in reply to Brian

Oops. the drives must be in the synology Compatibility list. On the newere enerprise models, the only production-ready drives are Synology own drives. Its better to check that the drives exist in the compatibility list before buying. i should have mentioned that in the article

Henry @ Mon, Sep 26, 22

Are they CMR or SMR?

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