On 02/13/2017 10:09 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:

This one in particular:

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16822178748

Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 5900 RPM 128MB Cache SATA
6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

No experience myself with this drive model, but my impression after
reading reviews of it both by "professionals" and by "regular users" is
that they are fine for initial writes and subsequent reads but are
pretty slow for rewrites. No information about reliability.

You could read the few reviews of that drive that are already there on
NewEgg and Amazon, but make sure to ignore one-star reviews that are
complaining about slow shipping rather than about the drive or that
think one star means wonderful and five stars means terrible.

Perce