Seagate ARCHIVE 8TB HDD review

Posted on: 04/14/2017 02:18 PM

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When reading the reviews on Tomsitpro and Storagereview they refer to Seagate saying: "Seagate does not recommended utilizing these drives in RAID or NAS environments".

I'm curious as i'm thinking of buying these for a NAS.

Even though your question is a little old now, I would suggest not getting them for NAS. As I just posted, the surveillance drives seem to be better built for not only 24/7 operation like the archive drives, but constant use also.

(Well blow me, on the bottom of the HDD, etched into the plastic base is the word recertified, did they just send me a second hand HDD to repleace my 3 month old faulty one?)

Only Seagate can answer exactly what drive you got, but if you asked they probably wouldn't tell you! It's possibly a RMA that was perfectly fine, or a factory second that they repaired. It would be interesting to know how many RMA's manufacturers receive, I wouldn't be surprise if a large majority of things people RMA as faulty are probably perfectly fine. It's okay though, they can recover that cost through bumping up the sale cost slightly .

Posted on: 04/15/2017 01:56 AM

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thanks for the review would appreciate hdtune benchamark where it shows write speeds from start to end so we can see write speeds on the inner track