It doesn't really matter what HDD you use as it's based on capacity. We are currently mining with 5 Seagate drives and 1 WD drive and we have seen no difference in read speeds. I know the Seagate 5TB drives are pretty fast at reading the drive but I think it goes for almost all drives. We went with Seagate as they seem to be the cheapest for us to buy in Australia compared to other brands.
Read speed on the Seagate Archive 8 TB is a little lower than most other 8TB drives, but we're talking a difference of 150 MB/s appx to perhaps 250 MB/s for the best other Hard Drives on a SATA 6GB interface (15k RPM drives excluded, those are CRAZY expensive).
SSDs manage quite a bit higher of course, but are severely overpriced for their capasity and you don't NEED that kind of speed for BURST.
The true key to BURST mining is "lowest cost per TB on a reasonably reliable drive with decent read performance" and having enough CPU or GPU to handle the capacity of your system fast enough to get the deadlines out on a consistent basis before the next block activates.
That is where the Archive (and the other SMR drives on the market to a somewhat lesser degree as they COST more per TB) shines.
