Seagate Archive HDD Series SATA600 ST-AS

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Pros:

Sequential write speed, Random read speed, Amazing price point.
Build Quality / Reliability, Good Performance, Massive 8TB Capacity, SMR, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures / Noise Levels / Power Consumption, 3 Years Warranty, Price (For Some)
Increase capacity at the same density and much lower cost, Strong read performance, Excellent burst write speeds

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Sequential read and random write performance, 3year Warranty
Not Ideal for RAID Use

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Last revision on February 9, 2017

Reviewers Liked

Sequential write speed, Random read speed, Amazing price point
Build Quality / Reliability, Good Performance, Massive 8TB Capacity, SMR, AcuTrack & PowerChoice Technologies, Temperatures / Noise Levels / Power Consumption, 3 Years Warranty, Price (For Some)
Increase capacity at the same density and much lower cost, Strong read performance, Excellent burst write speeds

Reviewers Didn't Like

Sequential read and random write performance, 3year Warranty
Not Ideal for RAID Use
Lower performance in sustained write tests (as expected)

Expert reviews and ratings

Value for money wise you cannot beat the Seagate Archive series, 8 TB for under 250 EURO. That's a lot of storage for the money. The performance is what can be expected, OK with big files, dog slow writes with small files. But that is the nature of the...

By Guru of 3D on January 19, 2016

Successful deployments of the Seagate 8TB Archive HDD will require significant optimizations to extract the maximum value, but the price per GB is impossible to...

By tomsitpro.com on July 24, 2015

Now that the prices of SSDs have dropped to well below 50 cents per GB, we expect that only few Hardware.Info readers will still want to use a conventional hard drive as their primary storage device. We still can't quite live without them, however,...

By uk.hardware.info on June 16, 2015

Being able to store 8 TB worth of data on a single drive is great: you can store 16 TB of data in a modest 2-bay NAS this way, and as much as 32 TB in a 4-bay device. Should you want to secure your data through a mirror array, then having a capacity...

By uk.hardware.info on June 02, 2015

Although we weren't impressed by the performance of the Archive HDD we also weren't disappointed since right from the start we knew that this is a 5900RPM "budget" oriented model with capacity and reliability (800.000 hours may not be the highest MTBF...

By NikkTech on May 21, 2015

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 SMR...

By StorageReview on March 06, 2015

le installazioni di successo dell'Archive HDD da 8 TB richiederanno ottimizzazioni rilevanti per avere il massimo valore, ma il prezzo per gigabyte è...

By Tom's Hardware Italy on September 21, 2015

Da Seagate den Einsatzfokus bei der Archive HDD v2 8TB ganz klar auf die Sicherung von großen Dateien oder Datenpaketen legt, eignet sich diese Festplatte gerade für Nutzer, welche zum Beispiel große HD-Videos oder größere Zip-Archive wegsichern...

By hartware.de on June 24, 2015

Ähnlich wie beim letzten großen Technologiewechsel der Branche von LMR auf PMR (Longitudinal auf Perpendicular Magnetic Recording) steht man derzeit erneut vor der Frage, wie die Kapazität der Festplatten langfristig weiter gesteigert werden kann....

By Hardwareluxx on June 09, 2015