This drive is infuriatingly slow. It takes very long for the drive to be recognized. It takes about 3-5 seconds (sometimes longer) to open the hard drive. Once in the hard drive it takes maybe 10 seconds to open a folder up. This is all initially. If I let the drive spin down I believe, which is about a minute or so it will do the same long folder opening the folders up again. When opening up a video file usually a DVD rip of about 700-1000mb mkv it might open up immediately, but sometimes it won't. Also it will only let me skip around two times before at most before it takes about 15 seconds before it finds the next place i skip to. I use this with my Thermaltake Blacx which doesn't give me any problems with my old 7200.10. I guess I'll try putting the drive inside my computer, but was hoping to keep it outside and eventually give it to my parents for their media backup in a few months. If it's this slow normally it'd be good to know so I won't buy one of these drives ever again.