S-series ST8000AS0002 internal hard drive

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