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More than enough space for all my needs, autodetected and was able to use without going through any special steps like some other people on here. My be an issue with there motherboard, not the drive.

I mean it’s a hard drive it works but it.

First impression after starting it on a dock this morning is: What a speedy beast! My fist 8088 PC had a seagate 20MB doing 125 kB/s from an MFM controller. Took 2.5 hours for low-level then DOS format The WD takes less than a day to fill. Wonder what The SAS version does. And got 2 with a 5 year warranty for less than twice the price per TB of 12 unwarrantied 3TB HGST K4000 being auctioned today. Conditional to lasting performance this is a Super Deal! At room temperature they runs the 220 MB/s R/W test at 45 C cool! Since they are 7200 RPM they will probably be OK as spares for my 8*18 TB raid array.

Fast. Hasn't failed after one year of heavy use.

* Benchmarking this drive using HD Tune Pro showed excellent results. 7,200RPM platter speeds combined with high areal density helps give it great throughput and access times. Here are some benchmark numbers compared to other drives in the same system of mine to compare to: System: Intel 3.8GHz CPU, Asus Rampage Extreme III mobo, 6Gb Ram Seagate ST6000NM0024 Enterprise drive: (review drive) Average read speed: 164.9 MB/s Access time: 11.7ms Western Digital Green WD40EZRX 4tb drive: Average read speed: 113.9 MB/s Access time: 17.0ms Samsung EcoGreen HD103SI 1tb drive: Average read speed: 84.8 MB/s Access time: 21.5ms Crucial C300 256gb Solid State Drive: (Even old SSDs smoke the benchmarks) Average read speed: 223.8 MB/s Access Time: 0.157ms Remember that comparing components using the same system and benchmark is necessary to get an accurate feel for an item’s performance. You will see numerous benchmark results by various users, but comparing their results to other user’s results can be seriously deceptive. It’s like they teach in the 5th grade, the scientific method is the only way to go. * The drive uses the SATA III 6Gb/s interface, a 128 MB cache, and “Power Choice Technology”. “PowerChoice technology improves on earlier technology and allows for energy-saving during periods of command inactivity, allowing for greater power reductions. As idle time increases, the power-saving benefits also increase, and the drives will still quickly respond to commands even after long idling periods. In addition, PowerChoice technology supports four customizable modes to give businesses significantly more control of power usage by allowing for up to a 54% reduction in the amount of energy used.” * Unlike two of the bottom mounting screws, all of the side mounting screws are in standard locations, so if you mount in this fashion, or use quick release side mounts for example, you are good to go. * This is the largest single internal drive solution available on the consumer market at the moment. Its formatted capacity is 6001,039,241,216 bytes (5.45TB) as formatted in NTFS under Windows 7. * I’m using this drive as my primary backup drive for my entire network. It seems to have all the makings to fill this purpose with excellence. They are also built to perform strongly in Raid arrays and installed into Network Attached Storage devices. * The drive is just as quiet as my current quietest platter drive. * Newegg packaging has become even better for hard drives. This came in a neat air bag style package that feels much more protective against package carrier bumps and bruises.

Running 24/7 for a year and no problems

Speed and price. This drive performs well and the price is as low as it can really be. My tests give the following: Maximum write: 207 MB/s Average write: 119 MB/s Access timing: 19 ms Sequential read speeds hit ranges of 175-225 MB/s. Random speeds can be pretty slow, but we know how that works. This is still a spinning drive. Write speeds were pretty similar, a bit lower as you'd expect.

Perfect for me, if 1TB is enough for you, well this piece gives you what you need.

Great for my NAS configuration, and I figured out that the drive industry sizing gaff is kind of fixed with this model since 22TB (decimal) = ~20TiB (proper binary).

it smells like a hard drive it looks like a hard drive it's quiet but it kinda sounds like a hard drive it's a hard drive

Added to Unraid array with no dropped sectors.