I would recommend anyone this hard drive to buy! First came a bearing failure on (after about 20 Betreibsstunden) - the drive is replaced by Amazon lightning (great service!). The spare drive began after approximately two months of operation at the latest hang after 2 minutes when Write / Read (despite airy, open location - ie a thermal problem can not manage it). I'm just trying to play my backups to another disk. If I have to fret any longer with the thing I get the big hammer ....