
Nice and speedy 7200rpm drive that works well, stays cool and is nearly silent. The WD migration software makes it easy to migrate your existing system to this drive.

Big Best bang for buck value Quiet. I've read reviews whining about noisy hard drives in NAS boxes. My NAS is currently on my desk. I can hear the drive working but they are not loud.

Well, I have to say I am impressed with this hard drive. While I do not have a security setup this drive is running in my main home network computer as a shared storage. Lots of reading and writing to it for storage of music, pictures, movies, and system backups. I have to say it handles all of it with ease. Its very fast even for only being a 5400 rpm hard drive. This drive is faster in reads and writes than my systems 640gb western digital blue 7200 rpm hard drive. With 1 terabyte of storage space it has plenty of room for all my networks needs. On my system it runs at Sata 3gbs speeds I can just imagine how much faster it would be if I had Sata 6gbs ports for it to be connected to. Very quiet drive so far with my experience with it, unlike some drives I have had that you could actually hear operating, when reading or writing to them. Now as I have said I use it for my home networks shared storage device, I can attest to the fact it handles everything, and as such if you set it up for a security systems drive it would handle all your data needs for recording video 24/7. Nice 3.5 inch drive whatever your needs may be.

Easy install and was backing up my PC Windows 10 in a few minutes using Acronis Backup. Reliable, fast and so far has not failed at all.

Plug-and-play with Windows 10. Great sale price for a 4TB drive. Has been working flawlessly as a backup drive for my three internal drives using Macrium Reflect Home.

Looks great. Works as intended. Easy to install and set up.

Easy and quick to remove or insert drives-toolless. It is both eSATA or USB 3.0 interface. Computers instantly recognize it, just plug it in and turn on computer for eSATA or hot plug the USB


Name Brand, only 1 drive has failed in the last 4 years out of 150-200 drives installed. Def recommend.

The 6 TB version seemed like the best balance between price, size, performance and noise / heat. This is going in a 4 bay NVR which is in a very quiet environment. So far, these drives seem much quieter than the 7200rpm version (during seek) which are being swapped out 1 at a time to allow the RAID rebuilds to catch up. Temps are 10C lower than the 7200 pro version. (37C vs. 47-49C per SMART data.)

Light weight/low power Quite Reasonably fast

Does what it's supposed to do. Simple Installation.

Trusted BrandTrusted ReliabilityPerformance see overall review.WarrantyRelatively quiet



- Needed 36TB storage pool created from 2x18TB spanned disk array - Easy to setup and format as "one large partition" with MiniTool Partition Wizard

Works well, way quieter than a normal external drive Run pretty cool in temp too

Great for my NAS configuration, and I figured out that the drive industry sizing gaff is kind of fixed with this model since 22TB (decimal) = ~20TiB (proper binary).


Great product