Simply The Standard Nowadays
Most NAS' nowadays, notably at least Asustor and Synology, do the Seagate SMART monitoring thing perfectly, which is the main reason I chose these over WD's. These were "renewed" or something. They came perfectly packed and worked perfectly and do everything perfectly. There is literally no drive noise at all. These are in the Asustor, which is on a shelf about 5 or 6 feet to my right. In the Asustor, they're fast! They're at least as fast as any of the drives in an aging dual core 3 gigahertz Pentium machine with SATA. You do something and it "feels" like you're doing it to an internal drive in the computer! I think you'd need at least 2.5gbE to max the speed of these drives out. (Which I don't have yet; I only have gigabit.) Highly recommended. They've been flawless since the end of January, which, at the risk of jinxing it, probably means they won't break for decades. Read more