I immediately noticed a nice speed increase (though some of that is due to Windows being fresh)

Bar moving fast = low ping speed.

I use it for backup, so cool and quiet is better than maximum speed

I think that you should save up for that if you want a good speed and can't afford the money for a SSD I would get this or get the 10K

, read speed is very fast, and the available 4 TB of space is very welcome

Excellent speeds (I have 3 of these in a raid5 in my nas), huge capacity, and so far rock solid reliability.

Through much research I have discovered that these drives have advanced power management that will cause the head to park itself and slow down the speed of the hard drive to save energy

Excellent speed and capacity for the price

The slowest speed of this this drive around 167MB/s is the fastest speed for the older 4TB as you can see

It is being used a a backup boot drive, so speed is not that important for it's application.

I think that you should save up for that if you want a good speed and can't afford the money for a SSD I would get this or get the 10K

The slowest speed of this this drive around 167MB/s is the fastest speed for the older 4TB as you can see

Cool, quiet, good transfer speeds for a 5900 rpm drive

I also talked to a tech at a retail store and he didn't believe a hard drive would be to blame for slow internet speed either

speed is fine and it hold a metric crap-ton of data.

I would wholeheartedly recommend these hard drives to anyone looking for tons of reliable storage and reasonable speed.

It seems to have slow reading speeds to some extent

this is probably the fastest mechanical drive I've used in a long time!200MB/s which is way faster than the typical 120MB/s and even faster