Here are the details for the 8TB drives the 5TB and 6TB are online as well now. Pricing could change as it depends on the dollar rate when they land. It is looking like the end of Next week for stock.
Seagate Archive Nearline 8.0TB 3.5" SATA 6Gbps Hard Drisk Drive (ST8000AS0002) @ £249.98 inc VAT
Supersized capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO
Features:
- Seagate brings over 30 years of trusted storage reliability to the growing need for online long-term storage.
- Industry’s best cost/GB/watt 8TB hard drive.
- Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year.
- Drive down costs with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
- SATA 6Gb/s interface optimises burst performance.
- Seagate AcuTrac™ servo technology delivers dependable performance.
- Free Seagate DiskWizard™ software allows you to install 5TB, 6TB and 8TB hard drives in Windows without UEFI BIOS.
- Seagate Secure™ models provide hardware-based data security and deliver an Instant Secure Erase feature for safe, fast and easy drive retirement.
- Seagate Secure models meet the NIST 800-88 media sanitisation specification and also support the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) standards.
Best-Fit Applications
- Cost-effective online archiving
- Object storage
- Big Data cold storage
- Cloud active archive
- Web-scale archiving
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 PowerChoiceTM feature.
Specifications:
- Volume: 8.0TB
- Interface: SATA 6Gbps
- Cache: 128GB
- Average Data Rate Read / Write: 150 MB/s
- Max Sustained Dara Rate, OD Read: 190 MB/s
- Bytes Per Sector: 4,096
- Heads / Discs: 12/6
- Workload Rate Limit (TB/Year): 180
- Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) Hours: 800K
- Limited Warranty 3 Years
Only £249.98 inc VAT.
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