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Seagate Archive HDD 8TB SATA 6GBps 128MB Cache SATA Hard Drive (ST8000AS0002)

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Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on SMR technology
Enjoy peace of mind with a drive engineered for 24x7 workloads of 180TB/year
Keep your costs down with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology
Store your data faster with SATA 6Gb/s interface that optimizes burst performance
Have confidence with a drive that provides reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology

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Seagate Archive 8TB Internal Hard Drive

Affordable Active Archive Hard Drives for Cloud Storage

The Seagate Archive HDD 8TB is a high capacity, energy efficient and lower cost hard drive for active archive purposes. The drive comes with impressive burst results but lower sustained write results, which are to be expected in this class of SMR drives. The drives are intended for use in large-scale data centres where density, power consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount.

Efficiently store more data at lower costs with this low cost/GB/watt, 8TB hard drive
Enjoy peace a mind with a drive engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year
Keep your costs down with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology
Store your data faster with SATA 6Gb/s interface that optimizes burst performance
Have confidence with a drive that provides reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology


Cost-Effective High Capacity 8TB Hard Drive Lowest cost/ TB online data archive solution for petabytes of growing archival storage helps to ensure affordable long-term data management. SMR-enabled technology ensures efficient and economical cold storage operations even in the harshest data centre environments.	Energy-Efficient High-Density Cloud Hard Drive The 3.5-inch Archive HDD is optimised for cold data storage with the lowest power consumption and the on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoice feature. PowerChoice technology supports four customisable modes to give businesses significantly more control of power usage by allowing for up to a 54% reduction in the amount of energy used.	Reliable Data Retrieval for Cold Data Storage Seagate offers the industry's widest selection of standards-based self-encrypting storage. From traditional hard drives to ultra-fast solid state drives, Seagate can help you choose the right storage device and security levels for your business.

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Cleversafe is excited to once again partner with Seagate to deliver to our customers what is truly an innovative storage solution. Delivering absolute lowest cost/TB along with the performance and reliability required for massive scale applications, the new 8TB HDD is ideal for meeting the needs of our enterprise and service provider customers who demand optimised hardware and the cost structure needed for massive scale out.

— Tom Shirley, Cleversafe Senior Vice President of Research and Development

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Cost-effective online archiving
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Cache Memory Installed Size	128	256	256	128 MB	128
Digital Storage Capacity	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB
Hard Disk Rotational Speed	5,900 rpm	5,400 rpm	7,200 rpm	7,200 rpm	7,200 rpm
Hard-Drive Size	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB
Hard Disk Form Factor	3.5 in	3.5 in	3.5 in	3.5 in	3.5 in
Hardware Connectivity	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SAS, SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Item Dimensions	1.02 x 5.78 x 4 in	5.79 x 4.01 x 1.03 in	5.79 x 4 x 1.03 in	5.79 x 4.01 x 1.03 in	7.5 x 6.5 x 3 in
Item Weight	1.4 lbs	1.39 lbs	1.72 lbs	1.72 lbs	1 lb
Size	8 TB	8TB	8TB	8TB	8TB

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Product description

The Seagate archive HDD 8TB is a High capacity, energy efficient and lower cost hard drive for active archive purposes. The drive comes with impressive burst results but lower sustained write results, which are to be expected in this class of smr drives. The drives are intended for use in large-scale data centres where density, power consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount.

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8 TB mechanical_hard_drive

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Brand Name

Seagate

Series

4111383

Item model number

ST8000AS0002

Hardware Platform

PC; Mac; Linux

Operating System

N/A

Item Weight

1.4 pounds

Product Dimensions

1 x 5.8 x 4 inches

Item Dimensions L x W x H

1.02 x 5.78 x 4 inches

Hard Drive Interface

Serial ATA-600

Hard Drive Rotational Speed

5900 RPM

Power Source

Technical Specification

User Manual [pdf ]

Warranty [pdf ]

Additional Information

ASIN

B00XS423SC

Customer Reviews

287 customer reviews

3.4 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#234 in Computers & Accessories > Data Storage > Internal Hard Drives

Shipping Weight

2.07 pounds

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Date First Available

December 12, 2014

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Amazon.com Return Policy:You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is "dead on arrival," arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Amazon.com reserves the right to test "dead on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the product. Any returned computer that is damaged through customer misuse, is missing parts, or is in unsellable condition due to customer tampering will result in the customer being charged a higher restocking fee based on the condition of the product. Amazon.com will not accept returns of any desktop or notebook computer more than 30 days after you receive the shipment. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from Marketplace vendors are subject to the returns policy of the individual vendor.

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8TB Seagate Archive drive model# ST8000AS0002

March 8, 2015

This review is for an 8TB Seagate Archive drive model# ST8000AS0002.
I have recently purchased a pair of these drives to replace a number of smaller backup drives from different manufacturers.
There aren't any reviews for these drives that I could find, so hopefully this will help someone.

Tests
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I usually run a few tests on all of my HDDs before they're put into service.
The first set of tests includes downloading Seagate's Seatools software and runnig Short Generic and Long Generic tests.
These are followed by Drive Selftest. Short Generic and Drive Selftest completed successfully in just a few minutes.
Long Generic test also passed but took a few hours to complete.
I then ran a full format (not quick format) on both drives, which completed overnight.

With both drives freshly formatted and completely empty, Crystal Disk Mark reports some pretty good numbers.
Sequential reads and writes are both very close to 200MB/s, which is a bit higher than the peak transfer rate of 190MB/s that is listed in Seagate's datasheets.

Next, I ran a Perl script that filled both drives with ~8TB of data leaving just 30GB free and then re-ran Crystal Disk Mark.
Sequential reads and writes dropped considerably and were both in the 80-90MB/s range.
So, on average, you are getting close to the advertised average transfer speed of 150MB/s.
This is adequate for my backup needs since they are done over a wireless AC network and I can only see transfer rates of 50-70MB/s anyway.

Crystal Disk Info
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Crystal Disk Info did not reveal any immediate issues with the drives. So far, I do not see any excessive head parking issues.
I did not see any reallocation events or reallocated sectors after filling up the drive with data completely.
One interesting bit of info is that these drives don't seem to support APM (advanced power management), so perhaps they will not be able to spin down to save power.
Edit: Evidently, this model supports Seagate's PowerChoice technology, so these drives should be able to spin down with no activity
http://www.seagate.com/files/docs/pdf/en-GB/whitepaper/tp608-powerchoice-tech-provides-gb.pdf

Other Performance Observations
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These 8TB drives use a relatively new technology called Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR).
It allows for much higher data density, but introduces some challenges when data must be written to a track that is next to another track that already has data.
The drive has to potentially rewrite data on the track adjacent to the one it's writing to in order to avoid losing that previously written data.
Some people speculated that this may impact performance somewhat. The question is - how much?
To try and simulate this scenario, I started a data transfer with a bunch of files that added up to ~200GB.
I then started another transfer of roughly equal size onto the same drive. Initially, the speed dropped by 55-60% on the original transfer, which was expected,
and both transfers stabilized at around the same speed. After some time, however, I started seeing speed drops to the 1-3MB/s range which lasted a few seconds.
The speed would then continue to fluctuate between 3MB/s and 40MB/s or so. Pausing one of the transfers helped.
Transfer speed recovered back to the expected 80-100MB/s range.
I still saw slowdowns back to the 3MB/s range even with one transfer but they didn't last as long and they were not as frequent.

Temperatures and Noise
-----------------------------------

I have not observed any unusual noises so far. Head parking noise is audible but does not seem to be excessive.
Under load, one of the drives reached 35C and the other was at 32C. After idling for a few hours, temperatures have gone down to 34C and 30C respectively.
One of the drives is a lot closer to an internal fan, so that explains the difference in temperature.

Final Thoughts
---------------------

If you have the need to store a lot of data that changes fairly infrequently then these drives should be a good fit.
They also have a reasonably good, midrange warranty of 3 years. At ~$31.50 per TB, which is basically their MSRP, they are a pretty good deal.
I would probably not recommend using them in RAID though.
With such drastic drops in transfer speed, the RAID card/software may "think" that something went wrong and drop the drive from the array.
And if something goes wrong with one of your other drives during a rebuild, which is guaranteed to last many hours with drives of this size, then you run the risk of losing the whole array.
Note also that these drives have only two mounting screw holes on each side instead of the typical three that you see with other 3.5" drives.

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Rock Solid so far.... Will keep updating

January 19, 2016

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First off, for the people who are going to state the obvious and tell me these drives are not approved for NAS usage, I already know. Having said that, even though Seagate says they don't recommend this for Network attached Storage, that is exactly what I am using these drives for. I now own 2 of them with a third on the way soon. These drives have provided my unRAID NAS with the kind of massive storage that I was looking for, and at a cost that I cannot beat anywhere else. These have been the lowest cost per TB that I have found on the market to date. I am using these drives to store media files (TV, Movie, and family videos and photos) and stream to all my TV, Tablets, and phones using Plex Media Server. I have no issues streaming multiple 1080 streams to different devices inside and outside of my home. These drives have just been rock solid doing everything that I have needed them to do.

The Seagate website says these drives have a workload of 180TB's per year so I don't think I will be hitting that. Mostly these drives will be read only and very rarely written to. The design of unRAID actually seems to compliment these drives quite nicely. I save everything to my server array on a solid state drive throughout the week, and I have a mover script that is built into the unRAID OS that moves the files in mass only once a week to these 8TB drives, that are then only used when a client calls for one of the media files located on these drives. So again, most of the time files will be read from these drives and not written, except for once a week when there will be large dumps from the fast expensive storage to these larger, cheaper drives. Just cannot beat that with a stick. Most of the time these drives stay spun down and quiet, only spinning up when needed to access a media file.

The one thing I can say could be a con is having to get used to the limited 3 year warranty when WD has the 5 year warranty. But hopefully I will never have to use that.

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DotScott1Top Contributor: Cycling

WARNING: THESE HAVE NO WARRANTY!!!

December 17, 2017

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WARNING: THESE HARD DRIVES DO NOT HAVE WARRANTIES!! Since apparently, these in particular are being removed from external hard drives and then sold on Amazon as internal hard drives, which voids the warranty through Seagate.

I bought two of these, one went bad just before the end of 1 year (after purchasing). I contacted Seagate and they told me that neither of the ones I bought have warranties because they were pulled out of external hard drives... hooray.

So anyway, BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK! The other hard drive has lasted a while so I'm at least giving it 2 stars because they're not completely useless... Still won't be buying another one from this seller though.

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Larz

Perfect for HTPC

June 8, 2015

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The perfect drive for a home theater PC. No, it doesn't write fast, but it doesn't need to. I've watched blu ray rips on this drive with no problems through XBMC and VLC media player. This drive is what you're looking for if you have a ton of movies and tv you never want to get rid of.

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