Review: Seagate ARCHIVE 8TB HDD
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Anarion
Does it make annoying chirping head parking noises like pretty much all (if not all) newish Seagate HDDs?
chilly willy
Little
Öhr
got five of these in a raid5 configuration for a little over a year now and no failures or issues so far. performance wise, they are only so-so, but seriously, for storage, NAS and big files, these drives are fantastic.
rl66
poornaprakash
Does Seagate HDD now less in quality now ?? I am asking so because I had a Seagate 500 GB Barracuda drive and its 6 years already and still shows no signs of trouble with it. The drive came with a 5 year warranty but nowadays most of the HDD come with 2 or 3 year warranty and I am bit suspicion about Seagate may have compromised quality with there current drives.
jura11
Buying Seagate HDD for archiving not sure if I would touch them,few weeks ago my 3TB Seagate failed without the reason and I've lost lots of works etc,recovery will be possible,but can be very costly
Due this I would be staying from Seagate for very long time,I've one more in PC which is Seagate and I don't use that HDD at a;lll,rather I'm using my trusted Toshiba 3TB HDD for archives etc
But that's me and yes my chirp too Seagate
Thanks,Jura
Pelnex
I thought these Seagate Archive drives were NOT for use in a RAID configuration?
XP-200
jura11
LBJM
I'm using one of these as a NAS drive hooked up to my router and I'm curious to see how well it holds up. I just purchased it at the beginning of the month and it's in a USB 3.0 enclosure (Protronix E35-B USB 3.0) at floor level. I will post in a years time and tell you if it's still running, and yes it will be on 24/7.
Pelnex
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.
XP-200
brettpeirce
Review review
So... why do I want to compare an ARCHIVE HDD's performance to that of a slew of SSDs? How is that supposed to be useful? If I'm looking for a review of an HDD, I want to know how it holds up against its competition... not 20+ things that it absolutely can't compare to?!!?!
Clawedge
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