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I have used this drive for several months so far, and my hard drive monitoring program shows that it is working at 100% health flawlessly. I have used it mainly for storage, and it performs well. I am pleased with it and would buy another, if I needed more storage.

I did the Blackmagic speed test and I got roughly the advertised speed at ~2600mbps which is about half of the speed that my MacBook Pro internal hard drive gets. That's also about 20 times faster than my old Lacie Rugged external hard drive which felt fast at the time I purchased it!

I have been using one for 2 or 3 years with no issue. I used to be a nomad living out of a backpack so the hard drive has been put through a good test. This is my second one; the old one is now my backup. I have faith in this product for photo storage and recommend it.

I'm loving this hard drive array so far. The real test is how long it will last, and I've only had it for a month. The speed is great.

I took her for a test drive and the photos are awesome.

My husband has been hunting for a few years and has never killed anything the last couple years he had health issues and found it very hard to lift the gun the last day out he drops his gun and broke his scope with all the new meds he ready to hunt again but needs a new scope this one sounds great but it is to expensive as we are retired and money is short but will keep and eye out for new deals good luck all with the hunting season

Great little unit. Fast, well built, easy setup. I wish there were better options for monitoring drive health.

The Thunderbolt interface is much faster than USB, but much more expensive. It also supports SMART monitoring, so the drive health can be monitored. The problem is trying to register it with SanDisk - they have a drop-down list of products, and this device is not even listed. The usual bad WD service.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This drive is blazing fast and a great contender for directstorage implementation in gaming, Forspoken being a game that loads almost instantly on this drive! My one major downside is drive health. In performance mode, the drive seems to degrade its health rapidly. This may have to do with improper nvme drivers and/or the full performance mode. Hopefully, we see updates to fix the health issues. I recommend to stay in the “standard mode” until a fix is implemented. Otherwise, I’m thoroughly impressed! With fast read/write, as well as sequential, believe this drive has great potential for both creative work as well as gaming!

it is the best hard drive I have :) I would recommend it.