These are pricey for the capacity but if you want your data to be protected (I'm a photographer & my raw images need to be

If your data is important to you, don't cut corners on the cheapest drives you can find

To protect my data I have to backup my RAID 5 configured data somewhere

Performance is good, the noise level is minimal, and the drives ae a good value for the $$$ spent.

I stream music and video from my PC using these drives and feel the faster performance will help improve loading times a bit and significantly improve data transfer speeds across devices

Wow, what a great way to spend my entire day

These drives work fine but man they are LOUD.

Performance is good, the noise level is minimal, and the drives ae a good value for the $$$ spent.

Pretty good value

but I would prefer some reliability and quality over a lesser HDD

I stream music and video from my PC using these drives and feel the faster performance will help improve loading times a bit and significantly improve data transfer speeds across devices

Installation and setup was as easy as plugging the drive(s) in, initialing, creating the partitions, formatting, and cloning the failing drive partitions to the new Seagate drives

Drives work great in my Nas server.

I appreciate the drive health integration with Synology software as well

I appreciate the drive health integration with Synology software as well

My only criticism is that seek operations of the drive introduce noise onto my computer's power lines that my sound card cannot reject.

This noise is heard as a high pitched burst lasting a few milliseconds every second or so synchronized with when the drive activity LED flashes.

Installation and setup was as easy as plugging the drive(s) in, initialing, creating the partitions, formatting, and cloning the failing drive partitions to the new Seagate drives

Hours later of phone support with Synology, Seagate, and Amazon and the conclusion is the drives are dead

Installation and setup was as easy as plugging the drive(s) in, initialing, creating the partitions, formatting, and cloning the failing drive partitions to the new Seagate drives

Arrived promptly,well packaged

Installation and setup was as easy as plugging the drive(s) in, initialing, creating the partitions, formatting, and cloning the failing drive partitions to the new Seagate drives

Highly recommend for anyone looking for reliable storage for their NAS needs.