
Much quieter than I expected from the other comments online.

I have owned many dozens of the WD Elements, My Book and and internal hard disk drives over the decades and have NEVER had one fail. Many of my old storage drives are over 15 years old and still working perfectly. Having said that it is of course time to retire the 1 TB or smaller hard drives now and back them all up on a larger single drive like the WD Elements 18 TB. Really nice to be able to fit the data from 5 to 10 older drives onto one large HD. I have since purchased another of these as a backup. Quiet, dependable and long lasting. Who could ask for more? I have had other hard drives fail in the past made by companies other than WD but I will not provide names as they have some good products but I only trust Western Digital for long term protection of my files. IMHO, they have no equal.

-Fast transfer speeds of <200MB/sec -Quiet, cant be heard outside case, no seek noises at all -Has 2000+ hours on it already and no issues or problems so far

Worked right out of the box. Great price. Lots of storage space. Normal form factor (not bigger than any other HDD in my server)



I like the USB C to USB A adapter is included and tethered. I tend to still just use USB A 3.0 ports. I am currently using a SSD M.2 but like that it supports both SSD and NVME (provided they fit the keys in the description). Getting really good speeds.
