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 center operations.
Reliable Active-Archive Enterprise Hard Drive
Exos 5E8 hard drives support up to 8TB per drive and offer affordable cold storage for data center infrastructures requiring a highly reliable enterprise hard drive. The Exos 5E8 hard drive helps to catalyze the datasphere, enabling data center architects and IT professionals to deliver trusted performance, rock-solid reliability, ironclad security and low TCO for demanding 24×7 operations.
Store More Data at Lower Costs
The Exos 5E8 hard drives are backed by a 800,000 hour MTBF and support workloads of 180TB per year. Store your data faster with a SATA 6Gb/s interface that optimizes burst performance. The Exos 5E8 drive offers a low cost/TB online data archive solution and helps ensure long-term data management with the lowest power consumption, thanks to on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoice™ technology.
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 center environments. The Exos 5E8 serves up impressive sequential throughput and is intended for use in large-scale data centers 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.
Key Features and Benefits
- High capacity, energy efficiency and lowest TCO.
- Over 30 years of trusted reliability for online long-term storage.
- Engineered for 24×7 workloads of 180TB per year.
- Drive down costs with up to 2TBper-disk hard drive technology.
- SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes burst performance.
- AcuTrac ® servo technology for dependable performance.
- Free Seagate DiscWizard™ software.
Best-Fit Applications
- Cost-effective online archiving.
- Object storage.
- Big Data cold storage.
- Cloud active archive.
- Web-scale archiving.
