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product_id: 50506501
title: "Seagate ST8000AS0002 Archive v2 8 TB 3.5-Inch Hard Drive"
brand: "seagate"
price: "€ 308.50"
currency: EUR
in_stock: false
reviews_count: 10
url: https://www.desertcart.ie/products/50506501-seagate-st8000as0002-archive-v2-8-tb-3-5-inch-hard
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region: Ireland
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# SATA 6Gb/s burst speed 8TB massive archive capacity Industry-leading cost/GB/watt efficiency Seagate ST8000AS0002 Archive v2 8 TB 3.5-Inch Hard Drive

**Brand:** seagate
**Price:** € 308.50
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 💾 Archive like a pro—because your data deserves a forever home.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Seagate ST8000AS0002 Archive v2 8 TB 3.5-Inch Hard Drive by seagate
- **How much does it cost?** € 308.50 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ie](https://www.desertcart.ie/products/50506501-seagate-st8000as0002-archive-v2-8-tb-3-5-inch-hard)

## Best For

- seagate enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted seagate brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Massive 8TB Storage:** Store your digital legacy with room to spare—perfect for long-term archiving.
- • **SATA 6Gb/s Interface:** Fast burst speeds for quick initial data transfers—archive smarter, not harder.
- • **Energy-Efficient Design:** Best-in-class cost per gigabyte per watt keeps your storage green and your bills low.
- • **Optimized for 24×7 Workloads:** Engineered to handle 180TB of data writes annually without breaking a sweat.
- • **Reliable Seagate AcuTrac Servo:** Precision tracking technology ensures dependable performance when you need it most.

## Overview

The Seagate ST8000AS0002 Archive v2 is an 8TB 3.5-inch mechanical hard drive designed specifically for long-term, low-write archival storage. Featuring a SATA 6Gb/s interface and Seagate’s AcuTrac servo technology, it delivers reliable performance optimized for 24×7 workloads up to 180TB per year. With industry-leading cost and power efficiency, this drive is ideal for professionals seeking a high-capacity, energy-conscious solution to securely store large media libraries or backups—not suited for NAS or frequent read/write use.

## Description

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Review: Perfect for archiving, not for anything else. - It is absolutely essential that you understand the intended function of this drive before you buy it. This is not suitable for a NAS system or as a boot drive, and it was not built to be either of those things. People who use these as NAS drives and then complain of failure are dragging the score of the drive down simply because it doesn't perform doing something it wasn't built to do. Its like yelling at your dog for not producing eggs. This drive uses SMR, which is covered very well in another review on here. It is intended to be written to sparingly - or preferably just once - and then read sparingly. It is an archive drive, a backup, a drive that you dump your 8TB of data onto and then keep safe in a cupboard for the rest of its life, using only in the event of your main drives' failure as a data restore. I cannot stress this enough: this is not designed or intended for or recommended to be used as a NAS drive. There are plenty of 8TB NAS drives on the market, so if that is what you are looking for then this is not the drive for you. However, if you want a safe backup of a large amount of data, then this drive is perfect. I love it. It took me two days to copy across two 4TB drives' worth of data to this archive drive. The write speed starts off fast (I got approx. 190mb/s) but gradually slows down (at its slowest I got 40mb/s). But speed is not what this drive is about, so that is fine. Once the data was copied over I put this in a static-proof HDD box and it now lives in my cupboard, well away from anything that could fall on it!
Review: Ideal, Huge Capacity, Highly recommended. Easy to use. Performs well. - Excellent product and price. Ideal as large capacity storage for read only (storage!) data, such as media libraries or backup. Note: this is not intended as a regular read/write drive (such as for your operating system/C: drive, for running games or working documents that will frequently change). That said I was surprised by the write speeds it achieves - up to 120MB during mass transfer. Standard SATA setup - so plug in data and power and you're set. We're using this for media (video) storage in our central media server and it performs great for all formats tested up to (virtually) uncompressed MKV blu ray backups with multiple high bit rate audio tracks included. Highly recommended. Easy to use. Performs well.

## Features

- Seagate brings over 30 years of trusted storage reliability to the growing need for online long-term storage.; Industry’s best cost/GB/watt 8TB hard drive
- Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year; Drive down costs with up to 1.33TB-per-disk hard drive technology.
- SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance; Seagate AcuTrac servo technology delivers dependable performance.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00XS423SC |
| Are Batteries Included | No |
| Best Sellers Rank | 208,011 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 885 in Internal Hard Drives |
| Brand | Seagate |
| Colour | Multi-coloured, assorted colours |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (411) |
| Date First Available | 8 Dec. 2014 |
| Form Factor | 3.5-inch |
| Guaranteed software updates until | unknown |
| Hard Disk Description | Mechanical Hard Disk |
| Hard Disk Rotational Speed | 5900 RPM |
| Hard Drive Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Hard Drive Size | 8000 GB |
| Hardware Platform | PC; Mac; Linux |
| Item Weight | 635 g |
| Item model number | ST8000AS0002 |
| Lithium Battery Packaging | Batteries contained in equipment |
| Manufacturer | Seagate |
| Power Source | DC |
| Product Dimensions | 2.59 x 14.68 x 10.16 cm; 635.03 g |
| Series | ST8000AS0002 |
| Wattage | 5.5 watts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Seagate
- **Colour:** Multi-coloured, assorted colours
- **Compatible devices:** Desktop, Laptop
- **Connectivity technology:** SATA
- **Digital storage capacity:** 8 TB
- **Hard disk description:** Mechanical Hard Disk
- **Hard disk form factor:** 3.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA-600
- **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special feature:** Portable

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect for archiving, not for anything else.
*by M***Y on 12 June 2017*

It is absolutely essential that you understand the intended function of this drive before you buy it. This is not suitable for a NAS system or as a boot drive, and it was not built to be either of those things. People who use these as NAS drives and then complain of failure are dragging the score of the drive down simply because it doesn't perform doing something it wasn't built to do. Its like yelling at your dog for not producing eggs. This drive uses SMR, which is covered very well in another review on here. It is intended to be written to sparingly - or preferably just once - and then read sparingly. It is an archive drive, a backup, a drive that you dump your 8TB of data onto and then keep safe in a cupboard for the rest of its life, using only in the event of your main drives' failure as a data restore. I cannot stress this enough: this is not designed or intended for or recommended to be used as a NAS drive. There are plenty of 8TB NAS drives on the market, so if that is what you are looking for then this is not the drive for you. However, if you want a safe backup of a large amount of data, then this drive is perfect. I love it. It took me two days to copy across two 4TB drives' worth of data to this archive drive. The write speed starts off fast (I got approx. 190mb/s) but gradually slows down (at its slowest I got 40mb/s). But speed is not what this drive is about, so that is fine. Once the data was copied over I put this in a static-proof HDD box and it now lives in my cupboard, well away from anything that could fall on it!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ideal, Huge Capacity, Highly recommended. Easy to use. Performs well.
*by P***M on 24 March 2016*

Excellent product and price. Ideal as large capacity storage for read only (storage!) data, such as media libraries or backup. Note: this is not intended as a regular read/write drive (such as for your operating system/C: drive, for running games or working documents that will frequently change). That said I was surprised by the write speeds it achieves - up to 120MB during mass transfer. Standard SATA setup - so plug in data and power and you're set. We're using this for media (video) storage in our central media server and it performs great for all formats tested up to (virtually) uncompressed MKV blu ray backups with multiple high bit rate audio tracks included. Highly recommended. Easy to use. Performs well.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Perfect for offsite backup
*by W***2 on 19 January 2016*

Was concerned about reliability given the number of reported failures that seem to be around (although there's obviously no way to tell how many people have perfectly working units and therefore don't feel compelled to post a review), but one week in and no problems. As many have said before, the drive uses SMR technology and is designed for cold storage/archive purposes, with low write speed but good read performance. I knew this going in, and it fits my use case perfectly – I'm using the drive for offsite backup of photos, video, music and personal data. I was initially a bit concerned when I started running my usual Robocopy-driven backup script – Not far through I started seeing average write speeds to the drive of around 1.5-3 MB/sec, even with large files, when from reviews I had expected the lower end to be more around 30 MB/sec. Looking further into it, I noticed that I wasn't using Robocopy's multi-threaded option (/MT). Once I turned this on, write speed seemed to fluctuate around 30-70 MB/sec, which is certainly sufficient for my purpose. Average read speed has been around 150 MB/sec – both in speed tests and in an MD5 hash check I run on 2.4 TB of photos. Will continue to surface test the drive on a regular basis but so far so good!

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