PRO-T5 Series USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for WindowsOS Desktop PC/Laptop (White) (14TB) (Renewed)

So far it holds a load of work very well. It is quiet and fast. I would like to have less bright from the blue light specially at night but nothing you can avoid by using electric tape at the front if you have the same issue.

The device has been performing fantastically. It takes about 30 seconds to load. No problem.

Worked great until it didn’t. I can get the data off of it but bummed it failed before I was able to fill up the capacity. Best to just get a solid state drive.

The good, the bad, and the ugly: The Good - the drive is fast, I'm 99% sure its a refurb Seagate Exos. I measured 230MB/Sec-ish reads and 202ish writes over several test runs, at least until it got so hot at the end of a 4TB write it thermally throttled itself down to about 60MB/Sec on a large file transfer. The electronics of the drive interface work well. The Bad - its refurbished, I shucked the drive and its even got a sticker on the side of the drive that says "OS refurbished". They wiped the smart data (yes you can do that) and loaded a new firmware 'OOS14000G'. At this price point nobody should be surprised its a refurb drive though. The Ugly - it runs horribly hot, so hot that its going to die a quick death. It IDLES at 118F/48C and at the 4TB transfer it was 129F/54C. I even tried taking a hole saw and cutting two holes in the to let some air in but the plastic top case is so tight no air can move. As a test I shut it off to cool to ambient and then turned it back on, in an hour and a half it'd climbed up to its 118F/48C just sitting there with nothing being written/read from it WITH the holes in the top and bottom of the case. The top of the drive was so hot I couldnt leave my finger on it for more than 30 seconds. Also, a quibble, but the bright blue LED lights are annoying. They'll light up a dark room and they never go out unless you cut the power. In comparison I pulled the drive and put it in a aluminum Nexstar HX enclosure that has a low noise fan. The exact same drive idles at 86F/30C. Next time I'll just buy a enclosure and a refurb drive and put it together myself and save a few bucks. This would be a good product if they just opened up the case a little and added a fan to blow on the bottom of the drive.

It maybe refurbished but it's in great shape it's quiet for the most part.. I think it's a great deal... I got the 14tb and I just finished backing up my files and games.. if you want a very decent drive with lots of storage this way is the way to go..

I can't comment on longevity until I've used it longer. Other than, everything works as expected.

great product for the money lots of space no issues so far but we shall see but it really does the job and its quiet.

Less than 3 months already saying to baccup the hard drive. Pay cheap get cheap😑. Never thought it would start having issues so quicc.