THE ENTERPRISE CAPACITY 3.5 HDD V5 8TB

Typically we received our sample inside a clear plastic package so nothing new to see here.

Nothing new in terms of design compared to most HDDs we've tested from Seagate to date (not that design pays any role).

The very large sticker placed at the top of the drive contains useful bits of information such as barcodes, serial number, model number, part number, factory rollout date (November 29th 2015), country of manufacture, electrical requirements, connectivity type, firmware number and several certification and warning logos.

Once again all of the components (including the controller, sensors and cache modules) are placed on the interior of the PCB and as you can see the enclosure/housing is the same we've seen quite a few times in the past with Seagate drives.

At the rear we see the usual SATA power and data connectors right next to 4 pins (probably used for firmware updating).

Since Seagate send over two Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD V5 8TB drives we will also be running RAID0 tests using our LSI/AVAGO MegaRAID 9271-8i card (we also got a 2nd Enterprise NAS HDD 8TB to perform RAID0 tests so next time our charts will be updated with that as well).