Incredible capacity with excessive heat and slow write speed. Passed the test of time for reliability.

I have three of these boys. Two purchased in 2015, one in 2016. Non have failed yet, so in terms of their reliability, they have passed the test of time. The drive gets extremely hot during file writing so I would not recommend using it as 24/7 NAS solution. But the drive is great for archival backups, what the drive is really designed for. Magnetic shingling technology used in the drive slows down it's read/write speeds so don't expect the drive to be as fast as traditional USB 3 hard drive. you still get average 70-80 MBps write speed depending on files type you are backing up. But at $25 per Terabyte I paid for it back then I could not find a better value for the money. Now in 2019 it is even cheaper. So far I am a happy owner of Seagate Backup Plus 8 Tb external hard drives.

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