This is the previous generation Black HDD. I had a case of terrible timing and purchased this while they were clearing out the last of them to make way for the current gen of Black drives. This drive is on the loud side, so I have to dock it a star for that. I get good performance though, and I expect this drive to last for quite some time.
The HDD is just an HDD, maybe I'll add an SSD in the future. It does the job. Only complaint would be that it's very loud on startup, but that doesn't exactly take long so it's all good.