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...

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

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.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===SMART Health Status: OKGrown 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 CDrive Trip Temperature: 60 CAccumulated power on time, hours:minutes 40817:27Manufactured in week �� of year 20��Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000Accumulated start-stop cycles: 57Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000Accumulated load-unload cycles: 1889Elements in grown defect list: 0Vendor (Seagate Cache) informationBlocks sent to initiator = 1885535064Blocks received from initiator = 726729936Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 704524886Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 1483336624Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 2745827Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory informationnumber of hours powered up = 40817.45number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 58Error counter log:Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes TotalECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrectedfast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errorsread: 3354996070 0 0 3354996070 0 1012173.914 0write: 0 0 0 0 0 60376.148 0verify: 205484296 0 0 205484296 0 342.178 0Non-medium error count: 244Returning this used crap.

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"!

I started by ordering 2 of these drives for an older Dell T410 server. Since then, I've expanded to 4 more to create a total of 6 TB mirrored drives. The drives see light use, and I've not seen any failures yet.

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.