Pros: Good Price to GB/TB at time of purchase Survived the shipping hell to come in one piece to the door

Cons: Was hoping to get the Enterprise versions since this is a standalone replacement for non-NAS Array usage but prices at time of purchase

Overall Review: I've known Seagate as one of the top Enterprise HDD MFGs but its been always struggle in the Public MFG arena for quality since you deal with less bulk and shipper handling. Cant blame the HDD Mfg if it turns to be shipper related issues when the drive fails. Look at Backblaze as a good open source for HDD performance analytics in survival. Happy that the shipping handlers managed to deliver this small package in one piece and that the HDD is showing no signs of issues after 238 hours of usage. I have 4 of these Seagate NAS drives in a 8 bay Synology for one of our mid-size sites and it has been doing well as our daily VEEAM backup + Cloud for over 6 months. See my image for current SMART Report

Pros: Server Level Expectations - Use for zones where noise isn't an issue.

Cons: Home Quiet Performance abysmal - high db to get temps low with AMD R9 5900X -90°C Avg

Overall Review: Hard to find suitable reviews for home server users so I had to jump and see how bad it was considering the 2U size limitation that I set. Sadly, server level perfomance were speed = loud = performance. Settled for the Dynatron L35 with Artic P8 Max fans. Controlled the RPMs with the Asrock Rack X570D4U-2T2L IPMI/BMC. 40° vs 90° idle for a AMD R9 5900X

Overall Review: Thankful handling by the delivery services. 72Hr+ Burn-in test on TrueNAS before they were configured into a RAIDZ2(RAID6) configuration. No reports of faults in SMART results. Almost 1 year of operational time.

Overall Review: Almost needed a 1M cable but the 0.5M cable was manageable. Very rare find and thankful that these cables exists for low-cost conversions without needed a SFF add-on card.

Pros: Loaded up VMware ESXi 8.x ISO via Remote KVM IPMI and installed without an issue for an Asrock AMD R9 5900X build.

Overall Review: More of a Asrock Rack motherboard design issue where the LPI and SPI connection placements. LPI sits by the Front I/O at the edge while the SPI sits next to a M.2 mount. A NVMe heatsink can cause either a tight fit or not fit at all.

Pros: Lots of IPMI/BMC Configurations Good set of I/O to use from 2x PCIe 4.0 NVMe x4 slots to 8 SATA ports. Micro-ATX Sized

Cons: IPMI Remote File Slow. X750 Heatsink might be prone to be in-effective. Semi non-standard FAN I/O between 4 to 6pins.

Overall Review: Was researching for months to decided on a good platform for a home server design. Running an AMD R9 5900X w/128GB DDR4 ECC UDIMMs and will either be a VMware ESXi or Promox cluster in the future. Own a old Asrockrack E3C226D2I and its been serving FreeNAS for a good 7yrs but the stability is going down slowly. Lots of home server consumers out there with a good following of information