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So far so good. I am always skeptical with hard drives though. With USB 3.0 I was able to hit 122-MB/s max transfer speeds with an average of 70-MB/s. The device does get warm as expected. I opt for keeping it on it's side with support (so it doesn't fall) as to provide the most surface-to-air ratio. I have had a pretty good run with a lot of Seagate drives, but in generally they have a high, but random fail rate. I highly recommend your read BlackBlaze's article "What Hard Drive Should I Buy?" They take data from a server farm and construct a graph to show fail rates. Generally speaking Seagate hard drive have a high failure rate, but at random intervals. Where as Western Digital's will normally fail within the first few months, but once the weak ones are dead the rest do pretty okay. I'd rather go with a WD if given the same price, but consider this is being used as a backup for another backup, I am looking more at price. Hopefully I'll get lucky, but I know fully well that any hard drive can fail at any time and it's my job to always protect myself. Please take that advice. * This may be un-related to the drive, but at around 75% full (mid way threw copying over a TB of files) my copying software would randomly freeze or report an error. This happened multiple times, but didn't happen when I coppied my first TB (0% - 50% full). Thought I'd throw that in for good measure. I will be keeping an eye on this one.