A lot of storage for a good price. It seemed to make a weird and alarming noise at first but that might have been the drive enclosure on my CoolerMaster HAF X. The case is getting old and the grommets are stiff and cracked. I had difficulty getting the drive attached to the enclosure and one of the four was knocked out when I had to force it into the drive bay. I was too frustrated to attempt to fix it for the 5th time or so. Regardless, the noise hasn't come back so I am guessing it was my case and the drive settled into position. Rather reckless on my part but the data is backed up.
The sequential read/write speed is incredible. Around 230MB/s. That is unreal. The random access times are much worse than my Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB drive and pair of very very old Seagate 500GB drives in a RAID 0. I expected that, but it confirms that this is best for mass storage and not gaming.
There are a number of reviews complaining about reliability. I am hoping that is a vocal minority but checking the SMART data doesn't show any problems. Any drive can fail at any time though so if the data is that important do a RAID 1 or perhaps an external drive to protect against the rising ransomware threat.
| Hard Drive | 6 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
|---|---|
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
