
- Fast for Magnetic Drive - Quiet

The cost vs capacity was too good to pass up. I use this HDD as a back up to multiple large drives and it does the job well.

This pair of NAS drives replaces 2 1-TB WD Black drives I had available to use for 1 of the 3 ZFS mirrored pools on my new home server. My plan was to patiently wait until these two NAS drives came on sale. They were worth the wait!


Quiet - compared too the original WD Blacks purchase back in 2010. Incidentally those WD Blacks are now RAID in my PC working very well. Speed - has been very good comparable to the WD Black- this is more due to the DS209 than the HD themselves. Temps - stays @ or under 30C under load even.

Much quieter than I expected from the other comments online.

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Preforms as expected.


- Reliable - Large - Good value