Review on Top-Performing MaxDigital 4TB 7200RPM Enterprise Storage Internal Hard Drive with 2-Year Warranty - SATA III 6.0Gb/s, 64MB Cache by Adam Abner

So how many of you were wondering what the deal was? 4TB for less than $70? Well, that's my experience so far. The drive came like most OEM drives, cardboard, spacers to keep it stable. All good things are mine Use mine as a backup drive via a USB 3.0 port. The first thing I noticed was LOUD. I knew it would be a bit noisy for a corporate drive since it runs at 7200, but it's still very noticeable. Now it's clear that mine was less than 2ft from me in an open case, but I think you can still hear it even if you put it in a full case. Also, the spindle startup time is quite slow. I ran Crystaldisk and HDTune. I seem to have an HP drive. There was no clock on the firmware, but there was already a volume on the disk. Win10 wouldn't let me format without deleting that volume first, so I'm assuming it was a RAW format. Normally formatted to 3.7TB. The quick scan of the disk was successful, no smart errors were thrown out immediately. I went ahead and made a copy of my 2TB Firecuda (5400rpm, about 1TB full) to disk via EaseUS with "normal" compression setting (not sector by sector). On a Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB RAM it took about 6 hours. Considering I have nothing to compare at this point, this seems logical considering my Firecuda is a 5400rpm drive and I am sending these files to a 7200rpm drive via USB 3.0. The Firecuda drive also contains many types and sizes of files. Now doing only incremental/mirror backups will help a lot during this time but still something to keep in mind if you plan to use it like I did with external/backup usage. During the backup, the hard drive temperature never exceeded 50 degrees Celsius. So far so good. This is a drive I wouldn't use as a regular drive unless you're using it to store streaming media or similar, definitely not something you need for quick file access. a few more backups to see if anything changes.