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plugged in, has worked for the past two weeks. No overt warnings about excessive bad sectors

This thing works great for PC storage drive to transfer files, music, etc. connects with usb 3.0, or usb-C. I use the usb-C connection and it is pretty fast moving files back and forth to it. This drive also works great for playstation 4 to setup as extra drive to hold more games on. Same can be said using it as an extra drive for the xbox one S, gives you more space for apps, games, etc. Portable so you can take it anywhere you might need to bring for files- like work, school.

I rely on these drives for my work PCs, and have trusted WD black going back to the Velociraptor days 20 years back. Only issue I had on latest purchase, was defective drive that had been cut open and repackaged to look like a new return but was defective with "cyclic redundancy error." Luckily Newegg shipped me a fast replacement and that worked first try, as per usual. Whew!

Speed. Smooth operation. Size.

Obviously a substantial amount of storage. Large cache at 256MB with a 7,200 RPM spindle speed which both contribute to impressive performance. Drive runs cool even after hours, upon hours, of consecutively writing terabytes of data to it; drive is now half full. I monitored the drive temperature through my Zyxel NAS326 web portal and the drive never exceeded 43C/109F; Seagate lists max operating temp at 60C. The Zyxel NAS326 does have a small fan in it, but it is absolutely silent while providing only a light breeze to expel hot air from within the NAS enclosure. With how cool and stable the drive performed, it is not surprising it has a MTBF (mean time between failure) rating of 1 million hours along with an endurance rating of 180TB to be written per year. That endurance rating means you could write the drives entire (formatted) capacity to it nearly 14 times a year...and it's anticipated to not fail! Latest firmware installed on the drive. Impressive sequential read/write speeds for a platter drive. ~260 MB/s read/write in my Ryzen 2700X system. This is a fair margin faster than my 6TB WD Black which only manages 175 read & 195 write; in the same system. This also exceeds Seagates claim of 210 MB/s Outstanding performance of the drive seems to be slightly bottlenecked by my entry-level Zyxel NAS326 enclosure. Gigabit Ethernet max theoretical throughput is ~125 MB/s and writing large (1GB-20GB) video files to the drive via the NAS held an extremely steady 80 MB/s. Using Zyxel web portal to download files from the NAS gives a slightly better result in the mid-80 to low 90 MB/s. Writing many small files (photos) to the drive obviously takes a performance hit, but it still did well often fluctuating between 15-30 MB/s. Considering the little $99 NAS is powered by a mere Marvell single-core Armada 38X 88F6810-A0, the performance is pretty decent IMO. Seagate has added rotational vibration sensors in case you will be operating these drives in larger NAS enclosures up to a total of 8. The IronWolf Pro take this quite a bit further with guaranteed performance up to 24 drives in a single system. Rescue Data Recovery services directly through Seagate are an optional addition to the drive; see cons.

The drive outperforms my sata 2 raptor. 2tb is perfect for a steam drive full of games or origin for bf3. Zero issues so far and great load times.

Tool free Transparent Compact Does come with both a type A and type C cable USB 3.1 Gen 2 (I could only test to USB 3.0 though) Inexpensive adequate heat dissipation

For Synology NAS users, the Synology brand drives means easier adoption, less headaches and fewer notifications. The extra small pennies/gb price per GB over other enterprise drives with worth it. No need to worry about compatibility with many features of DSM 7.1

Drive is compact in size, easy to connect and use, and recognized immediately by my PC. This Elements was perfect for my needs of backing up a server, runs flawlessly, doesn't take much time but that will depend upon your particular setup, hardware and backup software or methods. I use multiple drives in rotation, so that we always have one on site and one off site thereby limiting a loss to not more than a day's worth of work.

+ Extremely fast for a 10TB HDD and can easily saturate gigabit network bandwidth which would be the bottleneck at a theoretical maximum of 125MB/s. At the following marks, the write speed was as follows when testing within a desktop PC. 0 GB: 239 MB/s 3,000 GB: 220 MB/s 6,000 GB: 180 MB/s 9,000 GB: 120 MB/s When testing it in a NAS environment, unable to achieve anything higher than 120MB/s due to the gigabit limitations. + 7,200RPM with 256MB Cache + 5 Year Warranty, which is some of the best available. + Lighter overall in weight vs. drives of much smaller capacities. + Good heat dissipation for a max capacity hard drive. + 300TB / year workload design, which would amount to around 820GB read/writes per day; something that’s not seen in most environments.

Price is right Same model as the other RAID drives we're using