Seagate ST8000AS0002 Archive 8 TB Hard Drive (ST8000AS0002)

Efficiently store more data at lower costs with this low cost/GB/watt, 8TB hard drive. Enjoy peace of 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 a SATA 6Gb/s interface that optimizes burst performance
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After viewing this "Ask Sam" video, you'll learn how these affordable, high density drives can meet your needs for long-term, cold storage that's quickly and readily available online. 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 centers where density, power consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount. Lowest cost/TB online data archive solution for petabytes of growing archival storage helps to ensure affordable long-term data management. The 3.5-inch Archive HDD is optimized for cold data storage with the lowest power consumption and the on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoiceTM feature. Capacity 8000 GB

Drive Type Network Attached Storage

Interface SATA

Wireless No. Supersized capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO

• Seagate brings over 30 years of trusted storage reliability to the growing need

for online long-term storage.

• Industry’s best cost/GB/watt 8TB hard drive

• Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year

• Drive down costs with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology.

• SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance

• Seagate AcuTrac™ servo technology delivers dependable performance.

• Free Seagate DiskWizard™ software allows you to install 5TB, 6TB and 8TB hard

drives in Windows without UEFI BIOS.

• Seagate Secure™ models provide hardware-based data security and deliver an

Instant Secure Erase feature for safe, fast and easy drive retirement.1

• Seagate Secure models meet the NIST 800-88 media sanitization specification

and also support the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) standards. Best-Fit Applications2

• Cost-effective online archiving

• Object storage

• Big Data cold storage

• Cloud active archive

• Web-scale archiving