Seagate Archive 8TB Internal Hard DriveAffordable 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.
Archive HDD Review
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
Best-Fit Applications
- Cost-effective online archiving
- Object storage
- Big Data cold storage
- Cloud active archive
- Web-scale archiving
