Pros: None yet

Cons: DOA
[ 451.296934] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdh, sector 0
[ 451.296936] Buffer I/O error on dev sdh, logical block 0, async page read

Pros: The only 8 TB 7200 rpm drive available with SATA interface. It's extremely fast, with over 200 MB/s sequential - greater throughput than many low-end SSD's! It also runs very cool, much cooler than my old 2 TB WD RE series drives. I'm guessing this is due to the lower friction of the moving parts due to the helium fill.

Cons: The price/performance ratio on these isn't quite as good as with 4 TB enterprise drives. It'll come down though, as with anything else. Because of the massive 8 TB size, any RAID array initialization or rebuild activities are going to take a looong time.

Other Thoughts: I would recommend NOT using these drives in RAID 5 if you value your data. I'm using these in RAID 1 only. The URE on these drives is 1 in 10^15 which is consistent with other enterprise hard drives, but unless the industry can create a 1 in 10^16 URE hard drive, I'd stay away from RAID 5 with a drive this large.

These drives are working flawlessly for me as encrypted RAID 1 mirrored LVM volumes under RHEL 6.6. Plug-n-play. I've tried them formatted as EXT4 and also as XFS, and both seem to work equally well, at least in my usage pattern.

Pros: High Capacity quiet drives. Installed effortlessly and my ASUS Motherboard recognized the drives immediately. Using the Marvel controller, I created a RAID 1 and it has been working flawlessly ever since.

Cons: Hi Price

Pros: I purchased 10 of these for my raid 6 Nas. I have close to 60 TB of usable space. These things are fast. But I will have to add 10 more if I want to saturate my 10gb infrastructure. I have sustained network copy speeds of 600MB/second which is nothing to complain about and my 4k workflow is pretty seamless between all of my host computers. My power consumption is is around 80 watts when this system is at full load.

Cons: Price, these things are are enterprise class and enterprise priced. That said if you want the best you have to pay for it. Out of 12 disks I did have one DOA.