Seagate Exos 5E8 ST8000AS0003 / Hard drive / 8 TB / internal / 3.5" / SATA 6Gb/s / buffer: 256 MB | ST8000AS0003

Description

The Seagate Exos 5E8 hard drives are the most affordable enterprise-class drives designed specifically for active-archive applications in cloud storage, cold storage and online data archiving. Exos 5E8 provides power-efficient, high-density storage for 24×7 data center operations.

Seagate Exos 5E8 ST8000AS0003 / Hard drive / 8TB 3.5" / SATA 6Gb/s | ST8000AS0003

Special Features

• High capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO
• Trusted reliability for online long-term storage
• Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year
• Drive down costs with up to 2 TB-per-disk hard drive technology
• SATA 6 Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance
• AcuTrac servo technology for dependable performance
• Free Seagate DiscWizard software

Product features

• Reliable active-archive enterprise hard drive
  Exos 5E8 hard drives support up to 8 TB per drive and offer affordable cold storage for data center infrastructures requiring a highly reliable enterprise hard drive. The Exos 5E8 hard drive helps to catalyze the datasphere, enabling data center architects and IT professionals to deliver trusted performance, rock-solid reliability, ironclad security and low TCO for demanding 24×7 operations.
• Store more data at lower costs
  The Exos 5E8 hard drives are backed by 800,000 hour MTBF and support workloads of 180TB per year. Store your data faster with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface that optimizes burst performance. The Exos 5E8 drive offers a low cost/TB online data archive solution and helps ensure long-term data management with the lowest power consumption, thanks to on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoice technology.
• Efficiently lower your TCO
  Exos 5E8 ensures archival data confidence with a reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology for efficient cold storage operations even in harsh data center environments. The Exos 5E8 serves up impressive sequential throughput and is intended for use in large-scale data centers where density, power consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount.
• Enhanced enterprise reliability, data protection and security
  Exos 5E8 drives deliver exceptional security to help protect data where it lives - on the drive.