Seagate ARCHIVE 8TB HDD review

#5220677

Anarion

2016-01-19 14:47

Does it make annoying chirping head parking noises like pretty much all (if not all) newish Seagate HDDs?

#5220835

chilly willy

2016-01-19 22:46

Does it make annoying chirping head parking noises like pretty much all (if not all) newish Seagate HDDs?

If this drive gets used correctly it shouldn't matter if it farts a couple of times per day let alone chirp. This drive if people don't know is meant for infrequent data access and/or long term data dumps. I use a ton of them at work for our dumps for projects that have long been not needed. And my 20ish of them don't chirp. Not to nuthug Seagate or anything btw. I have tons of drives from WD, Seagate, and HGST.

#5220878

Little

2016-01-20 00:49

Does it make annoying chirping head parking noises like pretty much all (if not all) newish Seagate HDDs?

I've had mine for 6-7 months now. It does chirp every hour or so. I have mine to never spin down. It seems to do it much much more frequently if your room is cold 65 F or below

#5220894

Öhr

2016-01-20 02:11

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.

#5220943

rl66

2016-01-20 08:22

I've had mine for 6-7 months now. It does chirp every hour or so. I have mine to never spin down. It seems to do it much much more frequently if your room is cold 65 F or below

on hot too lol it's seagate... but doesn't mean it will fail at all... it's just the noise.

#5220948

poornaprakash

2016-01-20 08:59

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.

#5221222

jura11

2016-01-20 21:04

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

#5221256

Pelnex

2016-01-20 22:20

I thought these Seagate Archive drives were NOT for use in a RAID configuration?

#5221267

XP-200

2016-01-20 22:41

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

I bought a 5tb Seagate external last October there, lasted 2 months, I am just this moment waiting for it to be returned, I have no idea what they have sent me out, communications with Seagate has been very poor, a RMA number and and return email with nothing but the ups shipping info, nothing on what I am getting back or any info on what was wrong with the drive, or if they have fixed or replaced it, time will tell.

#5221284

jura11

2016-01-20 23:32

I bought a 5tb Seagate external last October there, lasted 2 months, I am just this moment waiting for it to be returned, I have no idea what they have sent me out, communications with Seagate has been very poor, a RMA number and and return email with nothing but the ups shipping info, nothing on what I am getting back or any info on what was wrong with the drive, or if they have fixed or replaced it, time will tell.

At least you can RMA,in my case I would like to send this,but right now,I need to find way how to recover it,I will be doing ddrescue on this HDD,I need to recover all files or big portion of the files which means around 2.1TB I need to recover I spoke with Seagate regarding the recovery and they are been silent for several weeks,which means I'm alone with that I bought this HDD as new,but previously I've bought used,he said its only used in NAS for several months,I got that HDD,when I saw how much data he written there(12.2PB) I send back that HDD to seller and he refunded me Regarding yours hope so they will sort you out,but agree their RMA or customer service is just poor Thanks,Jura

#5221333

LBJM

2016-01-21 02:15

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.

#5221362

Pelnex

2016-01-21 05:39

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.

#5221574

XP-200

2016-01-21 16:53

At least you can RMA,in my case I would like to send this,but right now,I need to find way how to recover it,I will be doing ddrescue on this HDD,I need to recover all files or big portion of the files which means around 2.1TB I need to recover I spoke with Seagate regarding the recovery and they are been silent for several weeks,which means I'm alone with that I bought this HDD as new,but previously I've bought used,he said its only used in NAS for several months,I got that HDD,when I saw how much data he written there(12.2PB) I send back that HDD to seller and he refunded me Regarding yours hope so they will sort you out,but agree their RMA or customer service is just poor Thanks,Jura

Well the HDD appeared at my door a hour ago, even though the UPS site says still in transit between depots... anyhow, it seems Seagate has sent me a different 5tb HDD, this one is called the Backup plus desktop drive, rather than the Expansion desktop drive which i sent them, still 5tb though, and it seem to be working, we shall see once i backup my 2tb of steam games, see how it fair with that little bit of work. lol (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?)

#5420482

brettpeirce

2017-04-14 13:16

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?!!?!

#5420759

Clawedge

2017-04-15 01:56

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