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

Seagate S-series Archive HDD v2 8TB. HDD size: 3.5", HDD capacity: 8000 GBAffordable 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