Seagate NAS 8TB HDD in 4-Disk RAID Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing

At the time of writing, the Seagate NAS HDD 8TB can be found at NewEgg for $348.99, Overclockers UK for £327.95, or through Geizhals for €325.24.

Conclusion

You should pick the storage drives for your NAS with care and not just take some random cheap drive. After all, these are your precious files and you wouldn’t want to lose them. The Seagate NAS 8TB drives would be a perfect choice for this. We already saw a very strong performance in our single-disk review and it was no different when they were put into RAID setups.

The double cache and the NAS optimised firmware makes these hard disk drives perform exceptionally well for consumer drives. On top of that, users of these drives will achieve a lower total cost of ownership through less power consumption. You can simply gain more TB per drive and thereby more capacity per watt compared to smaller drives.

The drives scaled very well in our setups and we saw really great performance figures with sequential operations going up close to 1GBps. Considering we also get up to 32TB capacity from four drives at the same time, that’s seriously impressive. The access times didn’t suffer from our RAID setups either and we overall got a strong performance in all tests.

Pros

• Great scaling
• Great performance
• Low total cost of ownership, capacity per watt
• NAS and RAID optimised
• Optional Seagate Disaster Recovery options available

Cons

• none

“I wouldn’t think twice whether to get the Seagate NAS 8TB drives or something else. The performance, capacity, and price are things that you simply can’t argue with.”

Thanks to Seagate for providing us with these sample drives