000Vn002 Internal Hard Drive

The Seagate IronWolf ST8000VN002 is an 8TB hard drive for adding storage to a NAS or another system that supports SATA drives. Seagate’s manual identifies this exact model as part of its IronWolf range and lists its formatted capacity as 8000GB.

It connects through a SATA interface rated at 600MB/s and has a 256MB cache buffer. The manual specifies a maximum sustained data rate of 202MB/s, giving a useful indication of the drive’s data transfer capability.

Seagate lists 24x7 capability and balance technology to support multiple drives in a system. These features make the model suited to storage setups designed for continuous operation and more than one drive.