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Pros & Cons
Pros
Speed is decent, not great, and overall it's a solid performer. The drive is amazingly fast. It also looks great. This does exactly as advertised.
Tb is a mind blower. Easy to reconfigure to raid 1 from the shipped raid 0. Set up in a redundant raid configuration isn't as easy as one would wish but is manageable. It reduces storage to 12tb but keeping that peace of mind that there is a backup co... Read More
The drives are a bit noisy, but not intolerable. You'll love this drive just as long as you can stand a little noise and aren't a light sleeper.
Video and photography use this drive for a large editing project recently. No latency or issues editing hd videos. I usually edit on a samsung t5 ssd and backup to this drive but it also works plenty fast enough to use as a primary editing drive for 4... Read More
Cons
It is not intuitive. It crashes every time i attempt to format the drive to raid. This unit requires software to configure, and there are zero, and i do mean zero, instructions on the set up of this drive. Wd/hgst has offered a refund.
Highlights
Quality
Works good simple to hook up quiet well made
It is well made and super fast
No formatting tools in the downloads section for the specific drive and the tech support is ridiculously vague and uninformed
My results where about 260 mbs read and 245 mbs write no matter what cable or connection i used
Price
And to get 12 tb for this price is a mind blower
Way too expensive in my opinion for what youre getting
For 700 i want to ensure my drive is optimally configured and they do not seem to understand that
Shipping
Easy to reconfigure to raid 1 from the shipped raid 0
Packaging/appearance
Great disk only its a shame the condition of the delivery the box was very damaged
Competitiveness
I have done multiple speed test with thunderbolt 40 gps thunderbolt 20 gps and the usb connection and the results with raid 1 i... Read More
I have a competitors raid that is only 1t raid 1 and i needed 3t for my videos so i got the 8t which will become 4t in raid 1
Lastly guidemanual is super basic looks like a guide from ikea
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- This product had a total of 264 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 15 2024.
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I use this at work and it gets the job done but it sounds like a minifridge from the 80s
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This 28tb tends to be loud but thats because the fans are usually always running unless its in standby mode
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im okay with the fan noise because i know my files will be okay as this thing stays cool
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had an issue where one of the removable drives wasnt responsive when i first purchased the unit and so i filed a case with tech support and they got back to me right away
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Not only was it a pleasant conversation but they troubleshoot with me why it occurred and i was back in business in no time
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Saved my butt and kept my client and thats why i will always purchase products from this company
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Way too expensive in my opinion for what youre getting
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Of course this is not configurable through windows and finding the software to download to reformat it to raid 1 was time consuming
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