Readynas Duo v2 and ST3000DM001 HD

I bought one of these drives to serve as a backup target for my NAS. Placed it in a removable drive caddy in the main tower. It's been running for a month so far with no apparent issues as yet. These drives are a better option than Seagate's previous 3TB offering due to only using 3x1TB platters as a pose to the 5 platters of the older model. It's not terribly fast, especially when drive/folder compression is used. It took my defrag program 4 days (!) to completely defrag it once a full backup of the NAS had been copied to it. But speed isn't a concern here. Seagate have had terrible reliability with the 1100 series, and a massive furore on their forums about the discretionary method by which firware updates were being distributed. But this was the largest drive I could buy from my chosen supplier, so took the risk. So far, touch wood, it's been money well-spent.