I purchase this because as I am gamer and need more storage so for that I bought it.The price is good and storage is also too much for anyone 1TB it not a joke.If you are using this as an external drive, this product has 2TB in very small space and is USB powered. The drive itself only takes 0.7-2.3W to operate! On Mac OSX 10.9.2 running the included Paragon NTFS driver, I was able to see write rates in 8-10 MB/sec with USB 2.0. On a Windows 7 Machine I averaged 18 MB/Sec; 14 MB/sec running the latest 8.1 update pretty fast as compared to others.I like it and hope so you guys will also love it.The product is slim and portable can be carried anywhere even in pocket.