This drive has a transfer rate just under half of some very fast SSD drives I have...for a mechanical drive, it's freakin' fast!

Installed and formatted with no problems; Formats at 9.09TB...will hold massive amounts of data...even a ton of Blu-ray movies; Used CrystalDiskMark to benchmark and got very good transfer rates: Sequential Read: 245.6MB/s Sequential Write: 232.6MB/s I also did a real time data transfer from my...

So far; I have no complaints at all about this drive

You might wonder why we need these traditional 'old school' technology hard drives these days. But now that I have one in my new computer build, it definitely makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately, we had 2 of the 5 drives go bad and report bad sectors. i have not gone through the RMA process 4 times and still do not have replacement drives. they make you pay for advanced replacement, their credit card processing does not work and people contact you about the case with no intent...

I've only had this drive for a couple of months so I can't rate its longevity. I am using it in a RAID configuration and it is performing well. I have a neighbor with a defective wash machine and her spin cycle shakes my whole place. Don't laugh...it's true!

"At this point in time this is the hard drive to have if you want a big and fast one."

B&H delivers, literally and fast. And as always, the best overall deal. This drive is everything you'd expect; quiet, fast, and HUGE!!! Fast & easy to install and set-up in Windows 7. If you work with gigantic files like 4k video, this is the drive for you!

Good capacity and several times faster than the older 8TB archive drives.

Seagate continues to deliver with its helium-filled 10TB solutions. With their entry into the mainstream, there is no way you can ignore the price or performance of the Barracuda Pro hard drive.

Performance-wise, both drives manage to deliver what that Seagate claims. As we can see from our test, despite the Barracuda Pro and the Skyhawk looked exactly the same externally and have the same specs, we can see just how Seagate has optimized the drives for its target market.

Great Performance; 10TB of storage; highest on the market today; Good warranty:3 year for Skyhawk and 5 year for Barracuda Pro warranty; Low power consumption rating; Excellent price per performance/gb ratio; Enterprise performance and spec but at consumer price

Lower endurance rating than enterprise drive; Higher per gigabyte ratio than smaller capacity drive; Lower warranty length (Skyhawk only

This hard drive is the fastest, vastest currently available for storing and transferring large files.

A whopping 12TB of capacity; Remarkable 250MBps sustained transfers; 5-year warranty and 2 years of data recovery

Expensive; especially if you mirror two for data safety