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Old February 15th 17, 09:02 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

On 2/14/2017 11:11 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 2/14/2017 10:53 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 14:37:32 -0600, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

On 2/13/2017 9:09 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

Bare or USB external ? I have one of these 8 TB WD externals. Works well.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/

Lynn


This past Xmas sale season, Walmart had a Toshiba 8TB external for
$169. They had it for some weeks, not just Black Friday or Cyber
Monday.


How do they get external drives that are half the price of internal drives?


The new WD 8 TB external USB drive supposedly has a HGST drive in it with the SATA interface replaced with a USB3 interface on the
drive board. Wild.

Lynn