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- Got six. Created RAID 5 and RAID initialized successfully. This is sort of a first test for the drives. Copied a few TB of backups on it which went without a hitch. - Performance. A hair better than HGST 6TB NAS drives that I own as well. 212 MB/sec sequential Read and Write on the outer most track and (half of that) 100 MB/sec on the innermost track. 170 MB/sec AVG sequential read. - Enterprise. For the price I had a choice, go with the proven HGST 6TB NAS, get IronWolf Pro 6TB or these. I figured, I'm going to give an Enterprise drive a try and see if it is in fact better than consumer/NAS drives. Now I have to wait 5-6 years until I can reach a conclusion. - July 2016 manufacture date with August 2021 warranty expiration. For a drive that came out in middle of 2014 I was worried that the stock will consist of old drives and that I would lose a year of warranty as a result. Mid 2016 is acceptable. - Noticeably quieter than my HGST 6TB NAS drives under load/seek. Quiet random seek - this usually is the loudest operation. This measure is always subjective, but I think many will find these to be very quiet. For the past two weeks I've been moving data between RAID sets which equated to a lot of TBs written to and read from these drives in total. I'm very happy with them, just wish they had ISE.

Good, Cheap Drives. Raid 1 average write speed 80MB/S with the raid, so I'm saying pretty good

Works great

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.

Good read/write performance, 160MB/s on both counts. Able to deal with 6 simultaneous HD TV recordings at once while commercial skipping playback without any lag. 5 second head park ticking is not audible over my silent case fans, I have to put my head down to the PC and literally strain to listen for them, and only did that because people complain about the noise.

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.

Large Capacity

This hard drive has been nice and putting it to major use. I use it to capture video. Im constantly recording 30g or more video's. Also render the videos to the hard drive. It benchmarks at 192mb.

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).

A good amount of storage for a reasonable price.

Good speed and storage. Priced per TB when got them was decent and size was due space I have in my case. Well built and heavy.