These drive audibly take some getting used to from older lower capacity drives. As when it reads & writes it almost always sounds like its heads are slamming or clicking on something. I can say specifically it happens to the 26TB drive, as I have 2 of these exact models from different stores. They boths have the same tell tale sounds. They work absolutely fine. I have been running 1 non-stop as a plex server for over 6 months, and this one I purchased from Best Buy since I purchased it, as a backup duplicated drive of the 1st, in case it were to die. These drives are a bit loud but would make great for mass storage backup. I write lyrics for music and store all the songs on my plex server. Overall I have been absolutely satisfied with this product and would purchase again, if I could find one for sale. Sadly shortly after my 2nd purchase of this drive they seemed to have disappeared from the market except for used ones by 3rd party sellers. I can only find 24TB drives or lower. Weirdly the 24TB cost more than the 26TB drives.

A great price considering how much storage you're getting. The drive inside the 26tb model I got was a barracuda drive, if anyone cares. I was hoping for exos but barracuda is great too. I use these in my home NAS, they work flawlessly. 10/10, I will always recommend seagate drives.

The hard drive is a bit noisy, but it's working perfectly, booting up the operating system and loading files without any lag.

Holds data as needed. Speed is adequate for use as a backup drive. It's good so far but makes a random rumble sound. I put a rubber pad under it and it helped to dampen the vibration. So far so goo!

Excellent external hdd, it helps a lot to have all my backups, and it is very faster.