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Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?



 
 
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Old February 13th 17, 04:09 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

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
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Old February 13th 17, 04:26 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Percival P. Cassidy
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

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

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Old February 13th 17, 09:37 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 2/13/2017 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
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Old February 14th 17, 04:53 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

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.
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Old February 15th 17, 06:11 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

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?

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Old February 15th 17, 06:12 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

On 2/13/2017 10:26 AM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
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.


It really will be used for archival purposes in this case.

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Old February 15th 17, 07:13 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Default Anybody got any experience with 8TB "Archive" drives?

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 00:11:58 -0500, 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?


Sold to resellers who get a 1-yr warranty, so sold cheap (mfr has no
warranty cost after 1 yr = lower selling price to reseller). End-user
MUST send external box and drive to reseller--or no warranty. Mfr does
NOT deal with end-users, just the reseller (more $$ savings).
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Old February 15th 17, 10:02 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
 




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