
Really fast.


Western Digital performance and reliability has always been top notch. Solid performer.

-Observed write rates of up to 220 MB/s (sustained for greater than 30 seconds). -Low vibration (less than some SAS drives) -Runs cooler than the other HDDs I have (nothing over 35 C with an ambient temperature of 21 C).

No SMART errors, arrived well packed, quiet, fast (for a mechanical hard drive), appears to have good build quality, made in Thailand not China, enterprise grade, high MTBF, Hitachi Deskstar and Ultrastar drives have very low failure rates that tend to be around 1% according to the Backblaze data center study on 27,000 mechanical hard drives of various brands

Good price 12gb interface Works well so far in my Adaptec raid 5



Bought 4 of these to put into my Unraid server build. 1 drive is my parity drive and the other 3 are paired up with (5) 6TB HDD's of another flavor for a storage pool of 64TB. I'll eventually swap out the 6TB drives with more of these as my pocketbook will allow. Performed the Pre-clear feature built into Unraid on all 4 drives with zero issues which weeds out infant mortality issues with HDD's Stable and solid for now.