Seagate Exos 5E8 8TB
The Seagate Exos 5E8 8TB costs $275.00 right now, or $34.38/TB. The maker rates it for about 493 GB read or written a day.
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Where to buy the Seagate Exos 5E8 8TB
Every in-stock offer we track, cheapest first.
- Newegg$275.00
- Amazon$375.99
Price history
Lowest in the last 30 days: $275.00. Lowest in 60 days: $275.00.
Show the data as a table
| Date | Lowest price |
|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | $275 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $275 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $275 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $275 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $275 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | $275 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | $275 |
Lowest in-stock price each day at Newegg and B&H, across every version of this drive we list (including heatsink editions). Lowest point $275.00 on Sep 19; latest $275.00. Amazon prices appear in the offer list but are not charted.
Specifications
Drive
- Capacity
- 8TB
- Form factor
- 3.5"
- Recording
- SMR
- Cache
- 256 MB
- Platters
- 4
Shingled recording: sustained writes and RAID rebuilds can slow sharply. Avoid for NAS arrays.
Rated for
- Use class
- Enterprise
- Workload
- 180 TB/year
- MTBF
- 800,000 hours
- Warranty
- 3 years
That is about 493 GB read or written a day, far more than a desktop writes.
Noise and power
- Idle power
- 3.7 W
- Operating power
- 5.3 W
Identity
- Part number
- ST8000AS0003
Quality score
How we score →Scored from recording type (CMR or SMR), workload rating, warranty, measured failure rate where Backblaze covers the model, spindle speed, MTBF and cache. Use class and size filter; they never score.
Value weighs the score against the price, compared with other 8TB hard drives: this drive costs $34.38/TB against a typical $47.50/TB. At a typical price, value equals the score. Cheaper raises it and dearer lowers it, but price counts for less than quality.
A factor we hold no value for scores zero rather than being skipped, so a drive we know little about never outranks a fully documented one. A low score with low confidence means undocumented, not bad. This is a specification index, not a benchmark, and it only compares hard drives with each other.
See every capacity of the Seagate Exos 5E8 on one page, or compare it with every other drive on the Hard Drives table. For what a hard drive gives up against an SSD, see SSD vs HDD.
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