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We use these drives in all our surveillance systems. High capacity, reliable, and inexpensive.

5TB and fast. What more is there to day, except reliable (have to wait on that since I just got it).

Easy to clone NVMe drives that would otherwise be a huge pain. No setup, built in functionality, just works. can handle a larger Target NVMe, which was my use case, upgrading an existing OS drive in a Laptop.

Needed a durable drive for my home security system.

A good amount of storage for a reasonable price.

I placed this drive into an existing computer and went to disk management to configure the drive. While I could have broken this drive down to smaller drives, but I preferred to keep the integrity as one drive. In doing this the formatted (using NTFS) it showed up as having 9.08 TB of free space. I did this to have enough backup space for the years to come on my main desktop computer. I know many people have gone to the notebook and gotten away from the desktop, but I find the desktop very useful for in home use and provide adequate storage and backup for all other mobile devices that are on the home network. Remember if you are going to place this drive into a network attached storage (NAS) make sure you get one that will not reject the formatting of a drive because it is larger than its maximum capacity depending on their scalability. Synology’s site shows that the DS1515 is compatible with the drive. Sometimes with a drive this size we tend to believe that it will never be filled. Reminiscence of days when the 1 GB drive came to the market, 10 TB is the new 1 TB. This has been an excellent drive so far with no issues. I have another one of these drives that has been in service for over two years now and haven't seen any problems with this drive. I will however update this review if any shortcomings are detected. So far this is a good drive.

Just works. Comes with clear instructions (once you read the correct side) and feels fairly durable. The lights for the % done is bright enough and clear.

Super fast file transfer Recognized all of my 24 WD 12TB HDDs upon drivers install without any issues. Comes in IT mode firmware preinstalled so great right out of the box. Extremely well constructed.

- Ease of setup - Speed / functionality

All 4 purchased worked. Very Quiet, both at spin-up and use. So far none have given me any problems. Connectors seem sturdy.

Very Quiet in operation. NO detectable vibration in these HDD ( my drive sleds use rubber isolation dampeners to mount the HDD). Good over all speed during the copy test, average about 120 MB. Over all temp remained from 27 C to under 34 C during migration of 2 TB of data. (3 hr test). Speed at 5980 RPM its adequate for my purpose but not really recommended for GAMING, a SSD or a 10 K RPM physical drive is better in that application. Files that were migrated were larger than what one would expect on a normal computer. These Seagate BarraCuda ST4000DM005 4TB HDD now serve as my newer VOD repository drives. And the reported DATA speeds were much better that the current situation of HDD's that I am using. Now only Time will Tell as to how well these work. Over all impression is a positive result on what I received, the results of the HDD performance tests and how they were shipped. Would I recommend them ... Yes... as from my current experience they meet my needs and would be adequate for Home Server or Direct Attached Storage . ( more on this below) I would also recommend them for Media Center use as they appear to be almost as quiet as my SAMSUNG F4EG 2 TB HDD Update 9/27/17 - Seagate ST4000DM005 Ok some time has passed and I have been using these Seagates for storage for Video files. I have had to make them BASIC disks in mmcc for W7. I also purchased a WD40EZRZ 4TB Hdd and have compared them. Price at time of purchase was about the same. As to differences between them not much except they WD was 2 degrees Hotter when doing copy / writes between a Seagate when in a USB cradle.

silent, cool, good speeds, not corrupted

Fast installation. The days of initializing and formatting is gone. With DDR4 RAM, it couldn't have taken a minute or two to transfer over 20 gig of data. It's fast and better than expected as a back-up drive with my "built-in" SSD in my new laptop (from Newegg, of coarse). Unbelievable... Now, we'll see if it can last as long as my Windows 95 Seagate (1998) laptop drive (1996 IBM lap.). But, this is unbelievable— fast and easy.

Excellent drive, performs as expected. Great add on to my surveillance system as a 2nd drive.