Seagate ST8000AS0003 User Manual

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
180 TB per year

Drive down costs with up to 2 TB­per-disk hard drive technology

SATA 6 Gb/s interface optimises
burst performance.

AcuTrac® servo technology for
dependable performance

Free Seagate DiscWizard

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software

Best-Fit Applications

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Cost-effective online archiving

Object storage

Big Data cold storage

Cloud active archive

Web-scale archiving

DATA SHEET

Trusted. Efficient. Versatile.

Exos 5E8

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 drive1 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, 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
180 TB per year. Store your data faster with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface that optimises 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 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.

1 Seagate recommends validating your configuration with your HBA/RAID controller manufacturer to ensure full capacity capabilities.

2 Exos 5E8 hard drives are not intended for surveillance or NAS applications, and you may experience lower performance in these environments.

For these applications, Seagate IronWolf ™ and Seagate SkyHawk ™ hard drives are suggested for better performance and reliability.

Specif icat ions 8TB

Model Number ST8000AS0003

Interfac e SATA 6Gb/s

Perform ance

Cac he, Multi-s egmented (MB) 256

SATA Transf er R ates Supported (Gb/ s) 6.0/ 3.0/ 1.5

Max . Sustained Transf er R at e OD (MB/ s) 190MB/ s

Conf iguration/Organis ation

Heads /D iscs 8/4

Byt es per Sect or 512e

SMR T echnology, Driv e-Managed Yes

Rot ational Vibrat ion (RV) Sensor Yes

Voltage

Voltage Tolerance, I nc. Noise (5 V) ±5%

Voltage Tolerance, I nc. Noise (12 V) ±10%

Reliabilit y/D ata Integrit y

Load/U nload Cy cles 300,000

Non-rec overable R ead Errors per Bits Read, M ax 1 per 10E14

Work load Rat e Lim it (T B/Year) 180

Power-On Hours per Year (24×7) 8,760

MT BF 800,000 hr

Warrant y, Limit ed (years )

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Power Consum ption

Start up Power (A) 2

Operating Mode, Ty pic al (W ) 5.3

Idle Average (W )

2

3.7

Standby M ode (W) <1.0

Sleep M ode (W) <1. 0

Environm ental

Operating (ambient, min °C) 0

Operating Temperat ure (drive case max °C) 60

Non-operat ing Tem perature (am bient °C) -40 – 70

Low Halogen Yes

RoH S c ompliance Yes

Phys ical

Height (m m /in) 26.11 mm /1.028 in

Widt h (m m/in, m ax ) 101.6 mm /4 in

Dept h (m m/in, m ax ) 146. 99 mm /5.787 in

Weight (lb/g) 605 g/ 1.334 lb

Cart on U nit Quant ity 20

Cart ons per Pallet / C artons per Lay er 40/8

1 Ex tended warranty produc ts avai lable. Con sul t your dis tributor for det ail s.

2 During p eriods of drive i dle, som e offl ine acti vity m ay o cc ur acc ording to the S .M.A.R.T. spec ific ation , whic h may i ncreas e acous tic and power to operati onal lev els. Cons ult the produc t manual f or more info rmation .

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