Fantom Drives FD 8TB 7200RPM External Hard Drive - USB 3.2 Gen 1 - 5Gbps & eSATA - GForce 3 Aluminum - Black - Compatible with Mac/Windows/PS4/Xbox (GFP8000EU3) by Fantom Drives

I've had another Fantom Drive for almost 10 years and it has worked flawlessly, quietly and cool. Being satisfied with the older drive I bought this newer model for the extra capacity and speed.The drive seems to work OK but I do notice occasional unresponsiveness which I'm not ready to blame the drive or macOS for it.On the other hand this newer model does not have a fan so it runs super hot. I have both drives hooked up to my laptop all the time and only the new one gets hot. The older one stays pretty much at room temperature.This may not be a big issue to everyone but keep that in mind as you decide where to put the drive. It emits enough heat to damage the finish on a wood table and possibly cause discoloration on other materials. It's also a sign of inefficient thermal design and excessive wasted energy. In addition to that, the heat will probably shorten the lifespan of the components in the drive. I just hope it doesn't fail, or fails within the 2-year warranty period. I have one more year under warranty.UPDATE: 5 days after I posted this my drive failed. I think its internal power supply or circuitry could not handle the heat because the drive isn't even turning on anymore. I'll contact support for a replacement but I really don't want to return the old one with my private data stored. I'll update again later.UPDATE2: Talked to support and I was told the warranty was 1 year, not 2. I'm still within one year so I asked for a replacement. I asked for authorization to open the enclosure, get my disk out and put in another enclosure to copy/delete the data. They agreed as long as I promised to not swap any part. Once I opened the enclosure I noticed a few components discolored (I'm assuming from the constant high heat) and some with severe signs of wear out. See attached picture. I was so displeased with what I saw that I decided to not request a replacement because I don't want to risk something like this, or worse - losing the data. The HDD inside the enclosure was OK and I bought another enclosure that comes with a fan to use with it. I'll be avoiding fan-less external drives until external SDDs of the same capacity become more affordable.

Great for expanding the space on my Spectrum DVR. While I did get bother a 2TB & a 6TB, it seems that theexpansion is not "linear". On the 6TB it seems that 50% of space will take about 140 movies....but I guess I mayfind out when/if I get to over 300 or so.In any case, despite researching on the web, it was unclear if this would work with my particular DVR. Charterwas essentially useless with both info. on the existing DVR HD space, nor if it I was likely to get a higher capacity onat the Charter store.Since they have a virtual monopoly in my area, what do they care.In any case, this HD did work out quite well.You must unplug your DVR totally & allow a full reboot. Please make sure you agree to format the drive if it asks...because itwill not ask again.I needed to reformat each one back to FAT to re-trigger the choice to format. It may worn you that you can loss the existingmovies on the embedded HD...and you will.For some reason, it is unclear at best, if once you use this external drive, does it use the internal one for storage. It does notseem that way....but it appears that they system still uses whatever OS that is on the HD.Sadly, you cannot swap between two external HD's. You have to commit to one. Of course, if you have two, you do have onethat you know will work for new movie storage in the future.As others have stated, the external HD is active & makes some noise during operation. It is not loud at all & you can put a piece oftape over the blinking blue LED light if it bothers you. I have no problem with either & I am still glad that it is working quite well.It does seem that the eSATA interface works quite well with this old DVR...possibly better than the internal one. While the metalhousing can get slight warm.... it seems to cool the drive well. I will see in the summer if any problems happen when it gets to the90's indoors.Since trying to upgrade with crappy Charter was a total bust, it was a joy that this FD HD worked out so well.While it does seem a bit silly to upgrade this via eSATA, it seems that crappy Charter will be more fixed at switching toan expensive cloud storage in the future...so I choose to this upgrade path.Since it is the same stupid OS, you still can only save two shows at the same time.I hope that the external drive may take some of the load off the internal drive & prolong the lifeof this DVR...since I dread dealing with Charter more than necessary.For those interested, this drive also appears to work well with an iMac & will work as a sturdyTime Machine drive....but not via eSATA. The USB works fine.

This drive failed less than a year after purchase. I wrote to Fantom and they responded that they needed to see the invoice for my purchase. I sent the invoice to them early in September 2022 - today is November 14th, 2022 and they still haven't written back to me.THIS COMPANY'S WARRANTY IS NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT WRITTEN ON - DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM FANTOM!

Backup de photos, pas tres rapide pour l’écriture, légèrement bruyant

In fact, I've purchased 3 of these. I returned the first one because the power cable didn't fit the drive. The second one worked as advertised. I eventually bought a 3rd one, but like the 1st one, the power cable did not fit the drive. • I was happy with the drive itself...for a year. Then I started getting unrepairable errors. (Disk Utility doesn't supply a lot of information unfortunately). When it was working properly, I was very happy with it. I don't know how prevalent these disk errors are, but it looks like you pay your money and take your chances.

Bien, esta es la primera vez que compro un producto de la marca Fantom Drives, hasta el momento ha salido excelente como disco duro, la capacidad reportada por windows es de 7.27 TB, HDDSCAN reporta que dentro del enclosure viene equipado con un Disco Duro TOSHIBA MD05ACA800R con 128MB de Cache y una velocidad de 7200RPM SATA SATA 6 Gb/s. Lo probe y la velocidad de transferencia via USB 3.0 llego a tope de 102MB de velocidad de escritura y manteniendo velocidades de 92MB a 99MB de velocidad de transferencia, logre pasara un disco duro completo de 160GB con ISO's y Back-Ups en tan solo 18 minutos.

UN DISCO RÁPIDO QUE NO DA PROBLEMA, NO TENÍA EXPERIENCIA CON ESTA MARCA PERO HA FUNCIONADO MUY BIEN HASTA AHORA.