My friend has this drive and loves it. His performance on his computer is way better now. When it comes to drives, we brought our editing in house and I was a the tech admin for our editors and I found out a few things. No matter what brand of drive you use, if you don't control the heat they are bound to die. No extreme temps. You can't cool the drive off when it starts to feel hot, the constant up and down in temps will take its toll and lose your data. It's still recoverable unless there is really bad physical damage to the electronics or platters. After we got our temp under control we found that we lost WD drives more often than Seagate. I spoke to a data recovery specialist and he told me that the current generation of Seagate drives are the best for our application. He told me this about 4 years ago. So far he has been right.
Richard