Does this drive really read/write at around 6Gbps (Gigabits per second)?!?
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The SATA 3Specification allows for up to 6Gbps, this is the theoretical burst throughput and is based on a number of things. The actual speed will depend heavily on if you are using in with a Laptop that SATA connection is for SATA3, Memory, Processor and BUS speed. Not to mention this is a 5400 RPM hard drive with 64MB of memory and 8 GB of Solid State Memory. Running Disk Speed Test on a 2011 2 Ghz i7 Quad using as a stress test of 5 GB got an average of 63 MB/s Write and 59 MB/s read with a 1GB file averaging better at 83 MB/s Write and 79 MB/s Read. Appears to be faster than the average 5400 RPM hard drive. It will speed up your computer as most of the often used data will be shuffled to the SSD portion. I got this drive for about $95 replacing the upgraded 500 GB Harddrive. Once installed it boots up in nearly half the time as previous and all applications are much quicker to launch with very little lag. It was well worth the price for double the capacity and double the speed vs 3-4 times the speed and 1/8th the capacity a comparably priced SSD drive would cost.
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Even SSDs don't actually read or write that fast. That is just the fastest the interface on the computer can go. You can probably expect about 120MBps when reading from the platters. The hard drive will always be the primary bottleneck in a computer. These hybrid drives are faster than traditional HDs though, because they put the files you access most frequently on the SSD portion.
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Using Disk Speed Test my results are as follows: 109 Write and 106 Read on a Mac partitioned to HSF+. Hope this helps.
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If it's in a mac book it will only fun as fast as the mother board witch is 3Gpbs
349086
No, this is just the speed that the interface can handle. In a perfect world, we would have 6Gb/s R/W speeds....
982949
I am using USB 3 and performance is reasonable. Using Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces with full parity, I am getting ~20-40 MB/sec throughput on writes. I would recommend it for archive and backups. Not sure about the throughput yet for something like an active media server.
97229
I've had no issues with the speed of the unit. It really depends on the drives you use.
1810217
There is no SATA 6.0. SATA 3 is 6.0 Gbps (Gigabits per second) so this is probably where your confusion comes from.So it's the best SATA there is.
1957609
Hmm... I personally don't know this either (I too would like to know -- in case anyone has tested it out). However, the product picture show the "SERIAL ATA" logo with "1.5Gb/s" below it -- making me believe it is not SATA 3Gb/s or SATA 6Gb/s. I am looking for one that supports 3Gb/s.
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No its 480mbps high speed 2.0. I like it as its easy to install and works with windows 7 and I have 3.0 on my motherboard and to tell the truth I copied several files from the computer hard drive to a external hard drive and several were over 1 GB and I could not see much difference in speed and the external drive is a USB 3.0. That card does everything I wanted it to do and I have no complaints, its worth the money.
954761
I cannot answer your specific questions because I am not particularly interested in the access speed and I don't have windows redayboost. But I can say that this little drive has been handy in my work and so far has not shown any questionable performance.
685154
yes it does, when it is running it is quite visible. this drive, when plugged into a 3.0 connection, man it is fast. Fast in a normal 2.0 of course but only to the limitations of 2.0
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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.
1827011
Of course. USB 2.0 will never match 3.0 speed. When the drive worked read on 3 was at least 4 times faster
1375963
Yes, there is a table of specs on the back of the box and it lists 6Gbps. I use two of these with two OCZ Vertex-4 SSDs (6Gbps, fast logic) on my main PC (3.8GHz Core i7).
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I cannot say I did benchmarks but I did monitor backups to it. I saw speeds between 40 - 58 MB/s in large networks and in the 60s in home networks. Both on Gigabit speeds.
2275326
No, I don't think so, from a data standpoint, this is just a passthrough device, so if you connect a 6Gbps SSD in one of the bays, the bay itself will not affect the speed. I use this as a holder of my drives for my RAID6 array, and the drives are mechanical, so my limiting factor is the throughput of the RAID controller first, and secondarily the read/write performance of the drives. I'm getting over 3Gbps to this array, so that is further evidence that the device itself does not affect SATA throughput.
782786
Something is not right there. On a wired 1Gbps connection with a single copy I would expect at least 400Mbps, with speeds over 700Mbps on faster switches (efficient internal packet forwarding). That is from testing when I first received the unit (tested with 4 x 5200 RPM Toshiba 160GB in RAID 5, prior to 4 x 7200 RPM Seagate 750GB in SHR I have had in it since then - but I haven't tried that on a fast switch, my home switch seems to max about 500Mbps). For comparison, I've seen speeds close to single line speed (~900Mbps) on a DS713+/DX513 combo. If you are on WiFi, I would run hardwired tests for comparison. Then start troubleshooting your WiFi.
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Hi Bandi, Technically, your drive is capable of making disk-to-host transfers of up to 110 MB/s, and USB 2.0 maxes out at 60 MB/s, where USB 3.0 maxes at around 125 MB/s. Your drive will probably never reach 110 MB/s, but I would suggest using a USB 3.0 enclosure so that your drive can run as fast as it pleases. Besides, at some point you'll probably upgrade even your "backup drive", and you'll want the speed. On a personal note, I love this enclosure. You'll need to buy some little rubber feet from the hardware store to keep it from sliding around, but other than that, it's great! Jack
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The PNY Turbo Plus Attache USB 3.0 Flash Drive (32GB model) reads as fast as 140MBps* and writes up to 70MBps* . (From Google search)
817140
It is quite fast. I never ran any benchmark tests but it is considerably faster than USB2.0. Just make sure you have USB3 ports in your computer. In case you only have USB2 ports, the drive still works but with USB2 speeds only.