It's noisy but it seems to be working for now.

Not sure about reliable. There should be a maybe or don't know choice there. This drive seems to have a minor problem. It seems to enter a self test mode where it thrashes very loud and hard every 10 seconds or so and then stops that behavior for a little while. The S.M.A.R.T. report shows nothing out of sorts but it is still running some sort of test offline. Very annoying at night when trying to sleep. my room mate complains and it worries me. I may just go back to my old drive. The only work around I have is to set it to some task like smartctl -t long to keep it busy. I noticed that long test has taken as long as 5 days to complete but it's only suppsed to take 29 hours to finish that test. So I think something is wrong but SMART can't quite see it. As long as it has a job to do it won't make that noise. Note the smartctl test does not produce that same noise so I don't know what it is that the drive feels it needs to be doing but it never satisfies it self. It's a shame in all other ways the drive seems fine but that noise is loud when it has a bad day. Loud and worrisome.Read full review

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