Testseek.com have collected 17 expert reviews of the Seagate Archive HDD Series SATA600 ST-AS and the average rating is 75%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Seagate Archive HDD Series SATA600 ST-AS.
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Value for money wise you cannot beat the Seagate Archive series, 8 TB for under 250 EURO. That's a lot of storage for the money. The performance is what can be expected, OK with big files, dog slow writes with small files. But that is the nature of the m...
Published: 2015-07-24, Author: Paul , review by: tomsitpro.com
Sequential write speed, Random read speed, Amazing price point.
Sequential read and random write performance, 3year Warranty
Successful deployments of the Seagate 8TB Archive HDD will require significant optimizations to extract the maximum value, but the price per GB is impossible to beat...
Increase capacity at the same density and much lower cost, Strong read performance, Excellent burst write speeds
Lower performance in sustained write tests (as expected)
The Seagate Archive HDD 8TB is a high capacity, energy efficient, and lower cost hard drive for active archive purposes. The drive comes with impressive burst results but lower sustained write results, which are to be expected in this class SMR drives. Ou...
Throughout testing, there were several times where I had to hold myself back. It wasn't that the drive was not living up to expectation as it was surpassing mine by miles, but there were many times where I just wanted to take a few of these drives and t...
The Seagate Archive series of SMR drives offers a lot of storage for an affordable price. As these drives are SMR, their performance characteristics do differ from that of regular PMR drives.The drives are ideally suited for large data stores, where read...
Published: 2018-04-11, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
Despite the fact that there are only three hard disk drive manufacturers left, you have a lot to choose from when you're looking for a new drive. It is not just about prices either. Though SSDs have outperformed hard drives for a long time now, there are...
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Published: 2018-04-11, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
Despite the fact that there are only three hard disk drive manufacturers left, you have a lot to choose from when you're looking for a new drive. It is not just about prices either. Though SSDs have outperformed hard drives for a long time now, there are...
We are starting this conclusion with the 6TB-drives. The Toshiba MD04ACA 6TB and X300 6TB offer good performance in this segment for a relatively low price, but are clearly audible with noise levels that are nearly at 40 dB(A) when idle. Nevertheless th...
