THE ARCHIVE HDD 8TB

Typically we received the drive inside the usual static-free bag (bulk).

Another typical 3.5" hard disk drive, nothing new to see in terms of design and size.

At the top of the drive we find the usual sticker with the drive product number, serial number, electrical requirements, warning/certification logos, connectivity, country of manufacture, installed firmware version and the coded factory roll out date (2015-02-02).

The modules are placed on the interior of the PCB for increased protection and from what we can tell the Archive HDD uses the same enclosure as the Enterprise NAS HDD.

At the rear of the drive we find the SATA power and data connectors and 4 pins probably used for firmware updating.