NL Archive HDD 8TB SATA 256MB 3.5 Review

• Exos 5E8: Trusted. Efficient. Versatile The Seagate® Exos™ 5E8 hard drives are the most affordable enterprise-class drives designed specifically for active-archive applications in cloud storage, cold storage and online data archiving. Exos 5E8 provides power-efficient, high-density storage for 24×7 data centre operations. Reliable Active-Archive Enterprise Hard Drive Exos 5E8 hard drives support up to 8 TB per drive and offer affordable cold storage for data centre infrastructures requiring a highly reliable enterprise hard drive. The Exos 5E8 hard drive helps to catalyse the datasphere, enabling data centre architects and IT professionals to deliver trusted performance, rock-solid reliability and ironclad security. Exos 5E8 is designed to best perform when write workloads are primarily sequential in nature. For more random write workloads, we recommend Exos 7E8. Store More Data at Lower Costs The Exos 5E8 hard drives are backed by an 800,000 hour MTBF and support workloads of 180 TB per year. The Exos 5E8 offers a low cost/TB online data archive solution with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface that optimises burst performance, and on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoice™ technology to help ensure low power consumption. Efficiently Lower Your TCO Exos 5E8 ensures archival data confidence with a reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology for efficient cold storage operations even in harsh data centre environments. The Exos 5E8 serves up impressive sequential throughput and is intended for use in large-scale data centres where density, power consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount. Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Data Protection and Security Exos 5E8 drives deliver exceptional security to help protect data where it lives — on the drive. Exos 5E8 safeguards firmware with Secure Downloads & Diagnostics.  Best-Fit Applications: • Cost-effective online archiving. • Object storage. • Big Data cold storage. • Cloud active archive. • Low random-write workloads. Features • High capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO. • Over 30 years of trusted reliability for online long-term storage. • Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180 TB per year. • Drive down costs with up to 2 TB per-disk hard drive technology. • SATA 6 Gb/s interface optimises burst performance. • AcuTrac® servo technology for dependable performance. • Free Seagate DiscWizard™ software.
• Product codes:
• ST8000AS0003

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The first of these tips is for you to try and really understand what it is you are looking for from a Stems product. There are obviously a massive amount of options to choose from so we’d always suggest doing your research at the start to help you to really understand what sort of product you need. Once you have a bit of an idea of the various options available we really recommend you write yourself a list of “must have features”. This list should include any elements that you consider absolutely essential, e.g. it must have XYZ feature or be from a brand like Seagate or be priced at under £161.32. This list will really come in useful when you come to narrowing down your search. Don’t be tempted to stray away from the list though or you can quickly end up spending much more than you had planned because you’re suckered into some sales copy which makes you feel like you need a feature of a more expensive product, when in reality you don’t.

Our next tip is to check out the overall features and benefits of NL Archive HDD 8TB SATA 256MB 3.5, if you decide that the key features match your list that you made above, you’re in a good place. Spend a bit of time really getting to grips with what all the different features mean so that you can confidently determine how one Stems product differs from another.