Exos 5E8: Trusted. Efficient. Versatile The Seagate Exos™ 5E8 hard drives are the most affordable enterprise-class drives designed specifically for active-archive applications in cloud storage, cold storage & online data archiving. Exos 5E8 provides power-efficient, high-density storage for 24x 7 data centre operations. Reliable Active-Archive Enterprise Hard Drive Exos 5E8 hard drives support up to 8 TB per drive & 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 & IT professionals to deliver trusted performance, rock-solid reliability & ironclad security. Exos 5E8 is designed to best perform when write workloads are primarily sequential in nature. For more random write workloads, we recommend Exos 7E8. Store More Data at Lower Costs The Exos 5E8 hard drives are backed by an 800, 000 hour MTBF & support workloads of 180 TB per year. The Exos 5E8 offers a low cost/TB online data archive solution with a SATA 6 Gb/s interface that optimises burst performance, & on-dem&, time-to-ready Power Choice™ technology to help ensure low power consumption. 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 & is intended for use in large-scale data centres where density, power consumption, data integrity & data retrieval are paramount. Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Data Protection & 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. Best-Fit Applications: • Cost-effective online archiving. • Object storage. • Big Data cold storage. • Cloud active archive. • Low random-write workloads. Features • High capacity, energy efficiency & lowest TCO. • Over 30 years of trusted reliability for online long-term storage. • Engineered for 24x 7 workloads of 180 TB per year. • Drive down costs with up to 2 TB per-disk hard drive technology. • SATA 6 Gb/s interface optimises burst performance. • Acu Trac servo technology for dependable performance. • Free Seagate Disc Wizard™ software.