Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive with SMR Technology (ST8000AS0022)

Lotsa storage but not very fast. Works great for archiving, like the name says.

Write speed isn't great, fluctuated from ~160MB/s to down to ~8MB/s copying almost 2TB of movies. Read speed is fine, more than enough to stream content from. Takes a sec to spool up, but other than that it's been great. Over 17000hrs on one and just bought another. Drives are the exact same, just different firmware versions.

this is a great drive for long term archive of movies pictures etc. just be careful to check warranty expiration date at Seagate.com before you open package. Twice now I have received drives with only 1 year left that had sat on a shelf somewhere too long

Glad I bought a few of these in 2018. They're still doing great. I had to knock of a few stars for 'value for money', since it now costs 27% more than it did four years ago. I thought these things were supposed to be getting less expensive, not more.

One of the drives failed after just 5 weeks. Amazon was nice enough to exchange it even though I was 1 week past the 30 day return window.

Been running a few of these for over a year now and no SMART etc warnings. Perfect for storage you do not write to often and do a lot of reading from.