I just bought it yesterday, so I can't really say anything about its merits yet. While still working. The downside is its noise. It's just impossible to work, it's terribly infuriating. Maybe, of course, I'm so sensitive, but I haven't had such loud hard drives yet. It crackles and chirps like a herd of grasshoppers. I would like to think that I came across such a model . Otherwise, it becomes sad from the thought that the new hdd from the pluses can only boast of volume.