Great for bulk storage but wow, its like time traveling back to the 80's! Moved 4 TB from the old drive to the new one and it took almost 2 days. No doubt spoilt with SSD's and the incredible speed that thunderbolt allows. On the plus side, 8TB of SSD would need a second mortgage, this didn't - excellent value for money. My other drive, which is about 6 years old, is a 5TB Seagate Expansion and its still working perfectly so reliability seems to be above average.