Seagate NAS HDD ST8000VN0002

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Pros:

Build Quality (180WRL / 1 Million Hours MTBF), Excellent Performance, 256MB Cache, 8TB's Capacity, Temperatures/Noise Levels

Cons:

Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To Other NAS Drives)

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Last revision on October 17, 2019

Reviewers Liked

Build Quality (180WRL / 1 Million Hours MTBF), Excellent Performance, 256MB Cache, 8TB's Capacity, Temperatures/Noise Levels

Reviewers Didn't Like

Price (For Some), Power Consumption (Compared To Other NAS Drives)

Expert reviews and ratings

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SSDs can't compete with price-per-GB-value of this magnitude. A great storage...

By Good Gear Guide on May 27, 2016

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Options are always a good thing and that is exactly what the NAS HDD offers us. There are certainly environments where the Enterprise features and extended warranty will be useful but for most consumers the NAS HDD will be more than enough. 3-years is...

By HardwareHeaven on March 17, 2016

Because the throughput of these hard drives will be limited by the used NAS and the network connection we do not primarily look at the speed here, but at the elements that are important for this segment: noise levels and power consumption. Therefore it...

By uk.hardware.info on May 22, 2017

We are starting this conclusion with the 6TB-drives. The Toshiba MD04ACA 6TB and X300 6TB offer good performance in this segment for a relatively low price, but are clearly audible with noise levels that are nearly at 40 dB(A) when idle. Nevertheless...

By uk.hardware.info on October 31, 2016

For about $370 at press time, the Seagate NAS HDD ST8000VN0002 8TB has a lot of similarities with its enterprise grade cousin, the ST8000NM0055 8TB. At the same time, there is quite a bit that separates one from the other. Both hard drives are some of...

By APH Networks on June 17, 2016

Seagate created another magnificent drive and the NAS HDD with 8TB capacity impressed us in all the benchmarks and taking the lead in almost all of them. It does cost a little bit more than competing 6TB drives, but considering the extra 2TB capacity...

By eTeknix on April 09, 2016

Based on the specs sheet given to us by Seagate and from our detailed charts the NAS HDD 8TB model has little to fear from his Enterprise Grade brother in terms of performance but the same can't be said about its reliability something potential buyers...

By NikkTech on March 05, 2016