Seagate Archive 5TB ST5000AS0011 128MB Cache 3.5" Hard Drive (3 Yrs. Warranty)

Industry’s first high-capacity hard drive designed for cost-effectively storing active archive data and cloud content .

• High-density 8TB hard drives for petabytes of affordable and accessible long-term online storage
• Enables significant system-level TCO savings with best cost-per-TB
• Maximum storage efficiency with lowest watts-per-TB
• Reliable, low-power data retrieval based on Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology
• RV-balanced for high density environments

Lowest cost/TB online data archive solution for petabytes of growing archival storage helps to ensure affordable long-term data management. 

SMR-enabled technology ensures efficient and economical cold storage operations even in the harshest data center environments.

The 3.5-inch Archive HDD is optimized for cold data storage with the lowest power consumption and the on-demand, time-to-ready PowerChoice feature.

Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options available for secure data storage and safe, fast and easy drive retirement.

Best fit applications:

• Online archiving
• Large data object storage
• Big data cold storage
• Cloud active archive
• Web-scale archiving