Does anyone notice faster speeds when using Linux Mint, and a USB 2 port? This is rated fastest drive by TomsHardware.
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I am not using Mint but Fedora. This drive is very fast among USB2 drives, but it shows its maximum throughput only with usb3.
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I'm not 100% tech savvy, but I think the major difference would be speed, if I'm not mistaken. 3.0 is the latest standard, isn't it? I think the transfer speed makes the difference, in which case I don't mind this one because I don't have any 3.0 USB items....I'm not much help in this matter, I just needed extra ports because I've downsized from a desktop to a laptop temporarily, so when I saw this I just grabbed it. It works quite well for what it's worth. I'm sorry if it this doesn't help.
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Sorry, I haven't had a chance to try on USB 3.0, but, I know it's faster compared to my other WD Passport 2.0.
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I didn't see anything on the box stating that. It does work well, I use it almost daily and I haven't had any problems yet. I transfer files that are 8 -12GB's with this drive. Also it does seem work faster with the USB 2.0 computers then the 2.0 flash drives.
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I'm running this drive on ACHI, so yea, it works. ACHI says its only running at 1.5 GB/s when it should be 3 GB/s for my motherboard and the drive clearly supports up to 6GB/s but it doesn't really matter since you'll pretty much never go too far over 200 MB/s with one of these drives.
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I am using an Asus board with optimized USB 3.0 ports and am getting great read speeds, however it does not seam too do much with write speeds. using ATTO benchmark I'm getting max 151MB/s read and only 20MB/s write. this drive is great for convenient size and its pricing should set expectations of a value drive and not a performance drive. Performance drives are larger and expect at least twice the price for a decent one.
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Good question! But I never test this issue yet. But the way, this board run stably. Really worth of money. Only backward on less SATA ports & lack of USB3.0
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of... » Read More the drive limit is 2TB per drive. which considering theyre still making this item you would think they would put out a firmware update if nothing else. im hoping that if they make a new generation f this product that they not only put all the usb ports on one side, but also make them... oh gee i dunno.... a usb port speed that was invented in the current decade, and support for drives larger than 2TB would be a nice addition as well.their support team told me to get my 4 3TB drives to work on it that i shoudl format them and make just a 2TB partition and just ignore the rest of my space, oh, and of course ignore the fact that i just deleted 12TB of data « Show Less
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The drive itself is only 5,400 RPM. However, if your only option is Thunderbolt or USB 2.0 (2011 iMac for instance) then this drive will still offer higher performance over a 7,200 RPM external USB 2.0 hard drive. USB 2.0 is limited to about 60MB/s (480Mbit/s), and this drive achieves around 105MB/s - 109MB/s according to http://reviews.cnet.com/external-hard-drives/buffalo-ministation-thunderbolt-1tb/4505-3190_7-35338125.html. Having said that, I have two of these. I have one on a 2013 iMac (i7 & 16GB Ram) and another on a 2011 iMac (i7 & 16GB Ram). I use them as external drives for my Windows 8 virtual machines. They are very speedy, and I haven't had any performance issues as of yet. You're correct however, you will never see 10,000GBit/s as they imply.
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Thanks to you all for your response. I guess I will have to live with USB 2.0 speed
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Hi Kevin I have bought this hard drive, and when I plug in into my Linux machine it displays correctly the device but It cannot be mounted , because it is formatted in NTFS and it does not let to see what it is inside it only shows a kinda warning that says you do not have permissions to mount this hard drive , so if you want to open you have to do it in a terminal and do a forced mounting by command. I have found a way on the internet how to make this drive fully compatible with Linux OS and how to erase definitively the 70 Gb software that comes installed when you have never formatted the hard drive I have no tested this method , because I do not have much time to deal with (Need to do homework at the University and other stuffs) here is the link: http://superuser.com/questions/44318/how-do-i-remove-a-mybooks-wd-smartware-virtual-cd-from-my-desktop . Well thats all hope this info helps you ^^. I am non native english speaker I really sorry for my english. Greetings! from Venezuela.
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Well you have one part that makes it faster... the fact it's an SSD. Firewire 400 is slower than USB2 but USB2 is not faster than 800. So if you're going from an FW800 device, to a FW400 port, you're still only going to get FW400 speed, which is fine because you'll be getting the FULL 400 worth of speed because the read/write of the drive is faster than the pipe the data is traveling through. --- So yes, to sum it all up, you can attach the firewire 800 SSD and have great speed.
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Peter is right. It will be faster than most usb 2.0 flashdrives in a USB 2.0 port but it will not be as fast as if you used it with a USB 3.0 port. Either way it should be faster than any flashdrives that you currently have even in a USB 2.0 port.
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that is generally depicted by the quality of the flash device you are using. i have used a patriot usb that shows no serious speed improvement over usb2.0, and i have a Kingston that is faster than any usb flash ive seen. this card has been stable, reliable, and quite fast during my usage. (use at work in IT environment daily)
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They claim it is a USB3, I even questioned them about it, but it does not seem to work any faster than a USB2. It does use a USB cable. It is a good drive and is probably limited by its read-write specs.
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Although I don't own this particular drive, I am here as I am looking to buy this one also to add to my two other Seagate 500gb Freeagents that I already have that have been working flawlessly for me for over 12 months now. I honestly think that your experience was most likely caused by a faulty unit. Without knowing your computer configuration (windows, mac or linux) it's hard to say if any extra steps would need to be taken to set it up, but for a windows or linux based pc it should be simply plug and play in my experience. As you see on this site, there is only one bad review of the product. If you think about how many of these must get sold every year, one bad review is pretty good as almost everybody will take the time to complain, but very few will come back to write a positive review as a working product is what most people expect. So I guess the short answer from me is yes, I would give this drive a second chance, but then again, i may be biased by my great experience. I hope that this is of some help to you..