
Drive came in a nice clear plastic case and wrapped in Bubble wrap. The 4TB size is superb for an enterprise drive. Physically the drive looks like a standard 3.5” black and metal Seagate drive (but still nice!) The Formatted size with a single NTFS Partition was 3.63TB space available! This drive has SAS Performance and quality with energy efficiency + 6GBps! Here are some bench results: Using AS SSD (it was one I had available) Seq Read: 172.87 \ Seq Write: 170.85 (MBps) 4K Read: .80 \ 4K Write: 2.05 Acct Read Time: 11.927ms \ Acct Write Time: 1.877ms Using Crystal Mark3 @ 1000MB Sequential Read: 181.9 \ Sequential Write: 178.8



This is the product I recommended

Had the drives about 6 months - running in a G-Tech 2 drive Thunderbolt as Raid 0 on MB-PRO 17. Getting 273MB write, 263MB read.



Doing LLM training and needed to use a 35TB training file and 3TB validation file. Used 3 of these drives to create a RAID 0 drive with approx 54TB capacity. (this is on Ubuntu and formatted with XFS file system since usual EXT4 tops out at about 16TB file size.) Works great and much faster than a single drive would be due to the striping of RAID 0.

Works great and the ones I own have been very reliable

