SEAGATE ST8000AS0002 – 8TB 5.9K 3.5 SATA 6G ST8000AS0002

Seagate S-series Archive HDD v2 8TB. HDD size: 3.5″, HDD capacity: 8 TB

Affordable Active Archive Hard Drives for Cloud Storage
Industry’s first high-capacity hard drive designed for cost-effectively storing active archive data and cloud content.
– High-density 8TB hard drives for petabytes of affordable and accessible long-term online storage
– Enables significant system-level TCO savings with best cost-per-TB
– Maximum storage efficiency with lowest watts-per-TB
– Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology
– RV-balanced for high density environments

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.

Reliable Data Retrieval for Cold Data Storage
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options available for secure data storage and safe, fast and easy drive retirement.
Best fit applications:
– Online archiving
– Large data object storage
– Big data cold storage
– Cloud active archive
– Web-scale archiving

Special features:
– Seagate AcuTrac Technology
– In-Drive Diagnostics (IDD)
– Seagate PowerChoice Technology
– Deferred SATA Activation
– Timestamp
– SeaTools Diagnostic Software
– SMART Drive Monitoring and Reporting
– Hotplug Operation (per SATA Rev. 3.0 Specifications)
– Enterprise CS Phone Support