Seagate ST8000AS0002 8TB ARCHIVE HARD DRIVE SATA 5900 RPM DISCONTINUED PRODUCT REPLACEMENT - MAY NOT BE IN RETAIL PACKAGING

Affordable Active Archive Hard Drives for Cloud Storage
Industry’s first high-capacity hard drive designed for cost-effectively storing active archive data and cloud content.
- High-density 8TB hard drives for petabytes of affordable and accessible long-term online storage
- Enables significant system-level TCO savings with best cost-per-TB
- Maximum storage efficiency with lowest watts-per-TB
- Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology
- RV-balanced for high density environments

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.

Reliable Data Retrieval for Cold Data Storage
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options available for secure data storage and safe, fast and easy drive retirement.
Best fit applications:
- Online archiving
- Large data object storage
- Big data cold storage
- Cloud active archive
- Web-scale archiving

Special features:
- Seagate AcuTrac Technology
- In-Drive Diagnostics (IDD)
- Seagate PowerChoice Technology
- Deferred SATA Activation
- Timestamp
- SeaTools Diagnostic Software
- SMART Drive Monitoring and Reporting
- Hotplug Operation (per SATA Rev. 3.0 Specifications)
- Enterprise CS Phone Support

The electrical or electronic product contains little or no Hazardous Substances (RoHS). Any RoHS compliant product is tested for the presence of Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Mercury (Hg), Hexavalent chromium (Hex-Cr), Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB), and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE). PBB and PBDE are flame retardants used in several plastics. For Cadmium and Hexavalent chromium, there must be less than 0.01% of the substance by weight. For Lead, PBB, and PBDE, there must be no more than 0.1% of the material. Any RoHS compliant component must have 100 ppm or less of mercury and the mercury must not have been intentionally added to the component.