Very noisy, vibrates the desk when being written to. And slow. I needed to transfer several TBs of data from smaller drives to this one in my home office. Started copying 2TB from a Seagate USB 3.0 3TB drive (through an iMac), mostly large video files and resources, in early evening. Said it would take 6 hours! Went to bed later that night and, even after shutting the doors, could still hear it clattering away! I have 7 existing desktop drives varying from 500GB to 3TB and none of them are this noisy. I have 2 LaCie 6TB drives at work and they're silent by comparison. The front USB-A port won't power a portable drive either, so there goes the...view more