
This is such a quiet drive 5 cameras record 24/7 and it doesn't bat an eye

Good capacity and pretty quite even under load.


-Fast write speed -Nice size

Solid as a rock and fast

Easy use. Just plug it in. Win 10 has no issues finding and assigning the drive. Chose the red to help keep business data separate.

The LSI-9305 required no setup. Merely plug it in, connect the SAS cables to the backplane and poof, done. This card supports 3.0 and 6.0 gb/s hard drives and SSD's

perfect for NAS. I don't really need the AI function in the drives they sit in a UNIFI protect set up. I have the 24TB one in my home protect set up and initially it was loud, but it has become more quite since it finished it originally set up. I have 8 of the 8TB drives with no issues. 2 are cold spares. when they go in I'll order 2 more. I take the drives that are out of warranty and typically put them in our 3rd tier backup NAS systems and they seem to live forever. Technically out of "service life" but that doesn't mean I take them offline, I stick them into a lower use environment to live out their days storing old accounting stuff. Nothing as exciting as VIDEO



NO RAID Real HBA PCI Gen 3 Works awesome with Windows Storage Spaces

Plenty of room, fairly fast speedsand great price on sale.

-Transfer rates are good - average a little over 200MB/s, drive to drive on the same LSI HBA on Unraid if it matters. -Temperature is good - average 30C in a 20C room during continuous transfer of files, about the same as a 6TB (WD6003FFBX), and about 5C lower than a 10TB (WD102KFBX). Idle temp is ~26C. This drive and comparables are in the same server/array. - Noise is relatively low, about the same as a 6TB and noticeably more quiet than the 10TB. - Cost per TB is good when on sale, very close to the largest 18-22TB rate.



So easy to use

The logistics was very fast and the order was processed quickly. The hard drive was received and the read and write speeds were better than expected

I use this in a USB enclosure for periodic backups. So far, it's worked great. Transfer speeds over USB 3.0 seem to be about 100 MiB/sec for large files.


Doing LLM training and needed to use a 35TB training file and 3TB validation file. Used 3 of these drives to create a RAID 0 drive with approx 54TB capacity. (this is on Ubuntu and formatted with XFS file system since usual EXT4 tops out at about 16TB file size.) Works great and much faster than a single drive would be due to the striping of RAID 0.