
I am using this as my primary genomic dataset decompression/analysis/recompression drive. It replaced the competitor’s highest-end consumer-grade performance hard drive, which also has a five year warranty. Sustained writes of 170MB/s are amongst the highest I’ve seen from a single (mechanical/platter-based) hard drive. For comparison, the drive it replaced topped out at 150MB/s according to my testing. This Seagate drive also has slightly lower latencies than the drive it replaced. At idle it pulls a few watts less than the drive it replaced. Finally, it is noticeably quieter (though in an enterprise setting this is irrelevant).

The drive is visible once plugged in

Faster than a lot of portable Hd's I've had.

It is powered externally so it doesn't take any from the computer and being USB it can sit on an expander. Works great.

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.

Size. Price/GB. Brand.

-easy installation -sturdy enclosure means it will stay put -option to upgrade optical drive later

18tb of storage is great


easy set up


It did fit a Slim Optical Drive. That a Optical drive that's used in a laptop for example. Part of my rating is that Newegg knows what they are doing. The First vender on Newegg's list did not deliver. I will leave that for customers to figure out. The least expensive vender is not always the best way to go. Now for the device itself. It works great. It also gives me an extra by for a 3.5" HDD or other drive device like a card reader. Icy Dock makes awesome bay adapters. Everything installed fine. The SATA power adapter is best thing too. You need this adapter to use a Laptop Optical Drive in a desktop PC. Icy Dock did not miss a trick.

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plenty of room h=now for our photos

Small footprint fit under computer table on top of my desktop.



lots of space

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

Lets wait see how the hard drive is 2-3 years from now. New Egg is super. If they don't have it they tell you and if they do have what you want it come vey quickly. They are the best.