User Manual

Key Features and Benefits
High capacity, energy efficiency
and lowest TCO
Over 30 years of trusted reliability
for online long-term storage
Engineered for 24×7 workloads of
180TB per year
Drive down costs with up to 2TB-
per-disk hard drive technology
SATA 6Gb/s interface optimizes
burst performance
AcuTrac
®
servo technology for
dependable performance
Free Seagate DiscWizard
™
software
Best-Fit Applications
2
Cost-effective online archiving
Object storage
Big Data cold storage
Cloud active archive
Low random-write workloads
DATA SHEET
Trusted. Efficient. Versatile.
Exos 5E8
The Seagate
®
Exos
™
5E8 hard drives are the most affordable
enterprise-class drives designed specifically for active-archive
applications in cloud storage, cold storage and online data archiving.
Exos 5E8 provides power-efficient, high-density storage for 24×7
data center operations.
Reliable Active-Archive Enterprise Hard Drive
Exos 5E8 hard drives support up to 8TB per drive
1
and offer affordable cold storage for
data center infrastructures requiring a highly reliable enterprise hard drive. The Exos 5E8
hard drive helps to catalyze the datasphere, enabling data center architects and IT
professionals to deliver trusted performance, rock-solid reliability and 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 and support workloads of
180TB per year. The Exos 5E8 offers a low cost/TB online data archive solution with a
SATA 6Gb/s interface that optimizes burst performance, and on-demand, time-to-ready
PowerChoice
™
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 center environments. The Exos 5E8 serves up impressive sequential
throughput and is intended for use in large-scale data centers where density, power
consumption, data integrity and data retrieval are paramount.
Enhanced Enterprise Reliability, Data Protection and 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.
1 Seagate recommends validating your configuaration with your HBA/RAID controller manufacturer to ensure full capacity capabilities.
2 Exos 5E8 hard drives are not intended for surveillance or NAS applications, and you may experience lower performance in these environments.
For these applications, Seagate IronWolf
™
and Seagate SkyHawk
™
hard drives are suggested for better performance and reliability.