Before I bought the hard drive I have experienced in diversten test reports that this currently is probably one of the fastest on the market. And indeed, I have connected a second plate of this model and large files back and forth between two copies and forth, there were top speeds of 115MB / s appear on average there were still 100. I saw 3 other USB hard drives, which came to just 65MB / s. Even in continuous operation the hard drive gets only slightly warm, it is built very low and extremely slim and high quality. Strong buy recommendation.