Fantom Drives G-Force3 Pro 4TB 7200 RPM USB 3.0/2.0 Aluminum External Hard Drive (GF3B4000UP)

Es bueno, pero también ruidoso

What type of cable do I need for my reolink nvr it only has an esata input and the cable that is included is usb to usb

Edit!I received the replacement for this hard drive today, and it is running smooth and silent. Red October silent. Looks like the first drive was just a dud.This is the loudest hard drive I've ever had in my life. Thought a police chopper was hovering over my house. I'd have to put it in the next room so that I could hear the sound on my computer. Hoping I just got a bad one....going to see if I can return it and get another. I have the same brand 2TB drive from many years ago that is ninja silent. This one is a 4TB and super loud.

I purchased this drive with the intention of backing up all of my photo data once a week. What drew me especially to this drive were two things:1) It used a Type B USB3 plug, which is much sturdier than the thin USB3 ports (USB3 Micro-B) on other mainstream external hard drives such as WD and Seagate.2) The presence of a power switch. I cannot overstate my annoyance with recent external hard drives that lack on/off switch. I like to keep my external hard drives plugged in all the time but I don't want to go back there to unplug it and plug it in to my computer every time.In addition to the points above, I've been using another Fantom drive (3 Tb) for a couple years (for backup as well) and it has been running fine so far.The first thing I did when I received it was run it through a bunch of SMART tests, which came back all green, so hooray. The second test was a full surface scan, which looks at all of sectors and makes sure none of them are bad. 9 hours and 45 minutes later (would have been closer to 6.5 hours if I wasn't running some other very processor-intensive programs) it detected 0 bad sectors. Hooray again! I decided to run it through HDDScan's surface test results as well (which also shows the distribution of response times of all the sectors) and everything looked great. Checking the drive properties, it appears the disk used is the  TOSHIBA MD04ACA400 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive . Both HDDScan and the Toshiba HDD listing (on Amazon) reports the drive running at 7200 RPM which gave me additional confidence.The drive I got had a slightly different design on the back, with the power and USB plugs above the power switch which made it slightly more difficult to turn it on when the drive is sitting on its side. Also the drive came pre-formatted in NTFS, with only one text document on the drive (explaining what NTFS is and what to do if you have a Mac). There's no other bloatware, backup software trials, etc. etc.Design-wise the brushed aluminum case is really nice, just like my previous Fantom drive. When running the surface scans the drive warmed up quite a bit, so I aimed a fan at it to keep it cool (which it did very effectively on the lowest setting). The drive also came with a stand which was nice. Also note there is a blue LED at the front which blinks when it's being accessed. TOSHIBA MD04ACA400 4TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive

I have purchased at least 10 Fantom external drives over the years starting with a couple of 250GB models back when that was considered "huge", and gradually adding a few 1TB, 2TB, and most recently a couple of 4TB models to the lineup. In spite of some reviewers claiming spotty quality, my experience with these drives has been nothing short of perfect. I use some for rotating backups so they are not powered on all the time. But I also have 5 operating 24/7 on my local network and have been for years without a single fault. When my storage needs outpaced the 250GB and 1TB models I simply replaced their HDD with larger ones. True the earlier models have USB2 interface but so what. If massive high speed data transfer isn't a necessity then USB2 works just fine. And common sense should tell you any spinning storage device needs to be on battery backup. All my Fantom drives are powered from UPS so maybe that contributes to my 0% failure rate, maybe not. Who knows. Hard disks fail and that's just a fact of life. But proper use, handling, and storage goes a long way to maximizing their life span. Bottom line, these are good units and I will continue buying them as needed.