Seagate Archive HDD
Power-efficient, high density cold storage for online data archiving.
CAPACITY: 8TB
ST8000AS0002
Affordable Active Archive Hard Drives for Cloud Storage
Industrys 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 center environments.
Energy-Efficient High-Density Cloud Hard Drive
The 3.5-inch Archive HDD is optimized for cold data storage with the lowest power consumption and the on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoiceTM 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
Specifications
Archive HDD SATA 6Gb/s NCQ 8TB ST8000AS0002
Capacity: 8TB
Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
Typical Weight: 780g
Maximum Length: 146.99mm
Maximum Width: 101.85mm
Maximum Height: 26.11mm