For Archive use only Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on SMR technology Enjoy peace of mind with a drive engineered for 24x7 workloads of 180TB/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
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 centers where density, power consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount.