Pros & Cons
Cons
Disk1 zct31c91) arrived at doe making horrible sounds when starting the nas. After 90 minutes with just 2% of the data written, the job was abandoned. This is the first drive in numerous drive that i have used across 20 years+ which fails. Do you have... Read More
Highlights
Packaging/appearance
My only real gripe comes from the packaging.
The drives were rattling about in the box with very little protective packaging.
I suspect damage in transit as the packaging was on the economical side for such sensitive devices.
The packaging situation is a pity and a real shame because these drives are very good.
Competitiveness
The 6tb drive is running extremely well in a synology ds918+ shr, btrfs build.
Got this to put in a synology ds118 to sync my shared folders off my main nas as an offline backup.
I can get 112 mb/s via utp ethernet (which is the maximum speed of a 1gbps ethernet connection minus overhead so more than fast enough.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I bought two of these drives to do swap out one of the drives was doa and made a horrendous noise when installed and would not work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I suspect damage in transit as the packaging was on the economical side for such sensitive devices
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The drives were rattling about in the box with very little protective packaging
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sure there was some bubble wrap around each drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But not nearly enough in my opinion
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Anyway the drive was sent back and a refund issued with no problem
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
At one time drives were boxed correctly so they would not suffer the knocks and vibration in transit
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Disapointed with this 6tb hard drive