Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 | ST8000NM0075 | 8TB 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s 256MB Cache | 512e | Internal Hard Disk Drive

Just wanted to make sure you all know that this drive IS indeed new, just not produced recently. They stopped manufacturing these drives to make room for higher capacity, newer technology. That being said, I had a drive go down in a RAID 5 from a few years back that has been going non stop and needless to say, I needed to replace the drive. I found this one and it fit the bill perfect and a lot less than the 300+ I paid when I bought them originally. Now if i intended on upgrading, I would get a bunch of 8TB or higher capacity drives but I didn't want to go another grand for a 50% utilization Raid anyway. I just needed to get files off the raid in the first place that weren't accessable previously... and now I can do that, and the drive is performing as it should... If you need to replace a drive in a RAID, this is a no brainer, the drive is in perfect condition and works like it should. If you are starting anew, I wouldn't recommend going this route unless you buy a bunch extra, because THEY AREN'T MADE ANY MORE. That being said I highly recommend seller and this drive regardless...

Been using these drives for months without issue. They’re relatively quiet and run cooler than other HDDs I’ve bought for a NAS unit I have.

I ordered six 8Tb SAS drives for a customer server. One failed in about six months and Maestro Holdings responded to my email request for assistance immediately. I sent the info, they sent a return shipment tag, I sent the bad drive out and had the replacement delivered in SIX DAYS! That included the shipping time back to them. I was never without fault tolerance on my server as the installation had a hot spare. I'll be continuing to do business with them. Thanks Brad and the "Maestro Team"!

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Health Status: OK Grown defects during certification <not available> Total blocks reassigned during format <not available> Total new blocks reassigned <not available> Power on minutes since format <not available> Current Drive Temperature: 45 C Drive Trip Temperature: 60 C Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 40817:27 Manufactured in week �� of year 20�� Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000 Accumulated start-stop cycles: 57 Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000 Accumulated load-unload cycles: 1889 Elements in grown defect list: 0 Vendor (Seagate Cache) information Blocks sent to initiator = 1885535064 Blocks received from initiator = 726729936 Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 704524886 Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 1483336624 Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 2745827 Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information number of hours powered up = 40817.45 number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 58 Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 3354996070 0 0 3354996070 0 1012173.914 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 60376.148 0 verify: 205484296 0 0 205484296 0 342.178 0 Non-medium error count: 244 Returning this used crap.

If you need a spacious spinning disk, go for the brand that does it best! This is a solid drive with exceptional transfer rates.

Using 4 of those drives with LSI-9361 12GB/s controller. Real life gives a transfer rates of 8-9GB/s in a moderate data load scenarios. This is 1.5x the SATA III. Disk are in the HP server for 6 months now - no issues.

I have used many of these drives and had a fairly high failure rate. The RMA was easy and so long as these are used in a redundant array are a great buy.

Bought SAS by mistake. Make sure you click SATA! I bought this thinking it was compatible with your average SATA hard drive enclosure... Nope, my bad. This is a special type of drive that only works in server-class hard drive controllers that cost hundreds of dollars. Make sure you choose SATA. Ugh, they should have SATA as the default, not SAS.