Alexander Narovlansky

Adding to this thread since I'm not sure where else to put it, and this one deals with Seagate EXOS disks. I've recently purchased 8Tb Seagate 7E10 model st8000nm017b. Its' SMART attributes say it's been unused before me, and it has latest SB10 firmware (at least SG program doesn't find anything fresher for this disk). Testing it with Victoria program didn't show any glaring issues except write speeds were lower then expected - 70 to 50Mb/sec. But it wasn't a big enough issue for the shop to accept...

Adding to this thread since I'm not sure where else to put it, and this one deals with Seagate EXOS disks. I've recently purchased 8Tb Seagate 7E10 model st8000nm017b. Its' SMART attributes say it's been unused before me, and it has latest SB10 firmware (at least SG program doesn't find anything fresher for this disk). Testing it with Victoria program didn't show any glaring issues except write speeds were lower then expected - 70 to 50Mb/sec. But it wasn't a big enough issue for the shop to accept...