Seagate 8TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 7200RPM SATA 6Gbps 256 MB Cache Internal Bare Drive (ST8000NM0055)

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Warranty Duration

Customers have expressed concerns regarding the warranty duration for Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDDs, with some reporting receiving drives covered by a full 5 year manufacturer's warranty while others found their drives to have no coverage at all or only seller warranties.

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Large Storage Capacity

Customers are highly satisfied with the large storage capacity of the Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD, praising its ability to hold vast amounts of data including movies, TV shows, books, photos, documents, games, and music. The drive's fast transfer rates and reliability make it suitable for data centers, RAID storage, enterprise storage arrays, backup servers, and distributed file systems. Some customers have reported that the drives are faster than their previous models and have experienced no issues during formatting or usage. However, a small group of purchasers mentioned that they use these drives in their NAS

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Quality

Solid piece of hardware and lots of storage.

Excellent quality hard drives which we're using for our in-house server and raid 1 configuration.

Two of the drives wasnt being accepted by the raid array and the re-building was stalling midway with the hard drive over heati... Read More

5 inch internal hard drive with st8000dm0004 hard drive, it has lower grinding noise and annualized failure rate is 0.

Price

For the price and the service, this was an outstanding purchase.

The price is great for an 8tb drive.

Wondered why the price was so good, and now i know.

Shipping

I don't really like the way people ship hard drives these days.

The drive arrived in adequate packaging and in a timely manner.

Packaging/appearance

Packaging: this drive came packaged in an anti-static bag with no retail box.

The packaging in the box is good but the outside packaging is not good.

I had ordered 8 drives and one came damaged, most likely from the manufacture as the packaging is robust.

Competitiveness

I compared this enterprise grade drive to both seagate's consumer line equivalents (barracuda pro/ironwolf/ironwolf pro) and si... Read More

As of spring 2018, the seagate exos 7e8 st8000nm0055 8tb drives are the best bang for the buck in terms of $/tb and features th... Read More

Finally, regarding warranties, there are reports on amazon of some third party sellers selling oem drives that may have been pu... Read More

All 3 were purchased from platinum micro through amazon and other e-tailers, and all 3 passed surface and s.

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This product had a total of 259 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 4 2024.