Very noisy, vibrates the desk when being written to. And slow. I needed to transfer several TBs of data from smaller drives to this one in my home office. Started copying 2TB from a Seagate USB 3.0 3TB drive (through an iMac), mostly large video files and resources, in early evening. Said it would take 6 hours! Went to bed later that night and, even after shutting the doors, could still hear it clattering away! I have 7 existing desktop drives varying from 500GB to 3TB and none of them are this noisy. I have 2 LaCie 6TB drives at work and they're silent by comparison. The front USB-A port won't power a portable drive either, so there goes the...view more

Does what it says on the box. A good looking unit, only marginally larger than the old 10TB hub version I had. Has a fairly open top design which seems good for heat dissipation. Noise and vibration is a complete non-issue. I was slightly worried about this given one of the other reviews here. I put it on a thin foam rubber pad (although that's probably not needed) and have it under my desk and really don't hear it at all. I'd definitely recommend it. I'd have brought the 18TB version but that seemed a bit steep in price to me.