I have used different hard drives including Lenovo, Seagate. But above all I have found this device the best. I have 3 WD External hard drive. One of them is almost 4 years old. Those are very rigid. Very light weight. The transfer speed is mind blowing. I get about 88-90 mbps read and write from my 3.0 usb laptop port. Using teracopy I get almost 90-95 mbps read and write. The softwares which comes along with the drive like WD backup proves to be a use. Also you get the updates for the driver and the programs very frequently.My recommendation me, yes go for it blindly.