UnionSine External Hard Drive 10TB 3.5" Desktop HDD USB3.0 Storage Compatible for PC, Mac, TV, Desktop, Laptop(Black)

I wanted this to transfer my data collected over the years from a 6TB, 4TB and 3TB SATA drives in USB 3.0 docks to a single drive that's easy to get to. Copying was quick, using Windows 11 and from USB 3.0 using the USB-C to USB-C cable I'm getting write speeds of I'd say average 140-150MB/s which is not too shabby.I got 2 cables with my 12TB drive (10.9 TB usable), a USB-C to USB-C and a USB-A to USB-C and they are certainly are of good make. The disk came formatted as ex-FAT, but I prefer NTFS myself as I'm not using a Mac but Windows and Linux Mint.Can't hear the drive as it sits behind my 32" monitor along with all other mess of cables hidden from view and the TV is always on in the background, not that it's noisy. As it will just be staying on my desk in the same position, so there's absolutely no need for it to travel with me , so I see a long and happy life for it. There's no on/off switch, so you'll rely on your O/S to power it down when not in use. There's a load of air vents on the case, so getting rid of the heat won't be a problem if you're really hammering the drive for a long period of time (like I'm doing at the moment).I chose this over the more well known makes as at the end of the day it's just a 7200RPM drive in a case and I wanted value for money and value for money it is. I wasn't put off by people saying "oh it's rubbish", and "don't trust it". Probably down to them dropping the drives will messing around with the innards to see what was in there. The bigger brand names also have people saying the same thing.If you're not paranoid and are not expecting the disk to fail in a day because it's not a "big" name, I'd recommend this - you certainly get a lot for your money 12TB at 180 pounds = 15 quid per TB in a nice case I'd say is a good deal.

Just picked up this UnionSine 10TB beast, and let me tell you—exactly what I needed to dump my ever-growing collection of 4K movies, games, and whatever random stuff I can’t bring myself to delete.What’s good: 10TB is a lot, man. I mean, “never have to delete anything again” levels. If you got a hoarder’s heart, you’re gonna love it. In terms of speed, it was decent. Sure, it is not an SSD, but it’s fast enough to transfer big files without making me want to gouge my eyes out. Read speed hits around 160MB/s, and write’s about 110MB/s. Not too shabby for a mechanical drive. It is compatible with pretty much anything: PC, Mac, Xbox, PS4—even smart TVs. Nice to have that flexibility.They also upgraded the quality of the cable, so it feels tougher than usual. Moreover, it contains anti-vibration stuff inside to keep the noise and heat down, which is a plus.What is not that great? It is not an SSD. If you want insane speeds, this is not it. It’s a good hard drive, but it will not teleport your files anywhere. Also, unlike the smaller drives, this one needs its own power supply, so it isn’t as portable as I hoped. Not a dealbreaker, but just so you know. The verdict: If you want just utterly ridiculous amounts of storage and don’t mind the somewhat slower speeds of a regular hard drive, this thing is actually a pretty great buy. Perfect for backing up your life, your games, your movies, and everything in between. Just don’t expect SSD speed, and you’ll be happy.

It's good for the money but the description is a little misleading it claims it's 14 terabytes but even when it's empty it barely reaches 13 I'm aware that people can only give an average for capacity regarding terabytes but to lose almost a full TB is a little disappointing still worth the money just beware of your description in future

Easy to setup - Plug it in and away you go.Value for money - Cheapest i could find.Lightweight - about the weight i would expect for a 3.5" drive in a caddy...Missing features -Reliability - 0/ZERO starsCustomer Support - 4 stars - they provided a replacement USB HDD without extra cost involved. Not interested in helping getting data off faulty HDD.Build quality - 2 stars I looks good and looks like it would last but obviously the looks are skin deep only. Under the shiny plastic and nice vents / graphics, is a cheap drive. Which is what you paid for...My history with these drives -Some month ago now my NAS had filled up and it was begging me t o replace a disk due to "issues" So brought this as a backup (Just in case if failed on me before my new NAS arrived, which was on back order) and backed up 10TB of data on it, so that i could migrate from my old to my new NAS. Copied across not a problem (after a few days of continual copying on 100Mb/s network connection... OLD NAS) Anyway likely i did, as old NAS then starting making clunking noises and showing up bad bit rot and drive errors on 2 of the 4 NAS disks and promptly stopped working. Thought, wow how lucky am I... New NAS arrived a week later which was 2 month faster than expected. Plugged in the new NAS and configured it. All fine until i started to copy data off this drive onto new NAS. Started off ok and left to do its stuff over night via a USBC/3 cable rather than over network cable, as thought it would be faster. Woke up the next morning to find only 4% complete and not moving, this drive and NAS was silent. No chatter like there was when i left it copying. Looked at the NAS and it reported IO Error. Checked HDD and couldn't access it. Rebooted this USB HDD and the dreaded clunk, clunk, clunk, buzzz, buzz, spin up/ spin down/ spin up... you get the idea. Drive had failed. Unable to get any more data off it and so tried in vain to recover the old NAS stored Data, to see if i could get that to work with new NAS and again was unsuccessful.Contacted seller and they apologised and supplied new HDD free of charge (which was very nice of them). I did explain this doesn't help me as i have 15 years of family photos and videos on this device along with 20 years of legal/ private emails / files on it. Company not even entertain me regarding recovering it.So now going to have to save up / fork out £400+ for a data recovery company to recover the data from failed USB HDD onto the replacement HDD supplied by company (which i hope does not fail during the process or when i move back onto NAS when recovered) before making a backup on the cloud like i should have done in the first place, rather than paying out for this.Moral of this story, HDD fail even brand new ones, NAS's fail over time (specially when you fill them up all the way!). When you think you have a copy, take another copy in a cloud if possible. Suppliers don't care if there HDD goes down with your data on. Its your fault for not taking a backup, even if this was a backup... If i had done the 3 copies i would be £xxx better off by now! When i finally get data recovered will have family photos in 3 places - one of which will be in cloud. Just in case one dies/ gets hacked/ or gets corrupt/ destroyed.