I will, however, leave the original review intact below, as this outlines the original product and the experience.

Current pricing makes the Exos X series more attractive in performance-focused deployments, but you do lose some consumer/prosumer features like two years of free data recovery found on the IronWolf Pro, and advanced disk health monitoring found on both IronWolf and IronWolf Pro series. Within less than 4 months, the drive simply stopped turning on. No lights, no power, no cycling, no noise, no anything. Dead.The submission goes smoothly until it asks you outright if you want the data from the drive that you are returning. (I would imagine many people do not want to lose their data.) The Drives come with a 5-year limited warranty and an MTBF of 2.5 million hours. Seagate Exos X16 Specifications Capacity In our throughput test measuring 4K random performance the Exos had read performance of 4,741 IOPS (CIFS), the second best performer, and 519 IOPS (iSCSI) at the bottom here. For write performance the Exos came in last with 633 IOPS (CIFS), and 558 IOPS (iSCSI).

Their replacement product was a 2TB travel drive that won't even almost hold the data I need it to. Edit: Updating this from a 1 star to a 3 star because of how well customer support handled my issue.For 8K 70/30 average latency, again the CIFS configuration of the Exos drive came in second with a maximum of only 196ms about 1,000ms less than most of the other drives tested. The iSCSI configuration was again in last but only by a bit. Our next test shifts focus from a pure 8K sequential 100% read/write scenario to a mixed 8K 70/30 workload, where we will show how performance scales in a setting from 2T/2Q up to 16T/16Q. With CIFS, the Exos X16 was on top from beginning to end, finishing at 1,302 IOPS. iSCSI saw the other end where the drive was at the bottom throughout.