Can anyone comment on the transfer rate of this caddy? Is it 1.5 or 3.0? Thanks.
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Hello, I Bought one of these and works really well, the bus speed on my Lenovo T430 is 3.0
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The speed is based upon the drive that is put into the caddy. The caddy simply changes connectors from the Ultrabay to a SATA/power connection.
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It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives). My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well.
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I have copied virtual machine folders with multiple 80GB individual files (160gb total), through a USB 3 hub, without any issues. I wouldn't expect there to be any issue with a transfer of 500gb. Take care to keep the computer and enclosure stationary during the transfer as movement in the USB connection can cause unwanted disruption.
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There are much easier ways to move your data than removing the optical drive and installing a second internal - which you would also need.I would hire a competent person to do the data migration for you. "Buy a sled" isn't really the solution.
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This caddy supports 500lbs. I'm so happy with this caddy because I'd had caddies before that supposedly supported this weight & the castors broke. This one does what it says & the castors are really robust. Excellent buy, I would highly recommend it.
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Previous to this I was using a terastation by buffalo. The disk station is a marked improvement over the terastation in transfer performance. I can't tell you a specific transfer rate off the top of my head but it should be only limited by the throughput of the wireless access point which would in this case be the bottleneck. On wired connections I get better than usb2 transfer rates.Good purchase. I found no better device in this price range..
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The caddy that's on your system will work. No you do not need to buy another caddy
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I got about 300 MB/s, which is about half of the max speed but it was plenty fast. If you are connecting the USB 3 wire to an external USB 3 hard disk, and not doing hard disk intensive work on your main OS drive, I think you will get about the same rate of transfer speed while moving large files. Good luck!
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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 can tell you it is double the 2.5 GPM of US limits. I timed it with a bucket. It is great!
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They don't publish what speed it is. They source different hard drive manufacturers. More than likely it is 7200 to meet the specs. From the various reviews from professionals, it meets their published specs. The transfer rates are very good. I liked mine.
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Yes. And transfer rate is fast if the other drive is also 3.0. If not then it will be limited to the transfer speed of the drive
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My LaCie is connected to an Apple Extreme Base Station. I also have trouble with transfer rates particularly when backing-up. I connected by Ethernet the first time to back-up 200GB+ -- took about 5 hours. Have only had the LaCie for a few week and have not had time to troubleshoot the transfer rates. Sorry cannot be more helpful.
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Yes, you will notice a major difference with 3.0 compared to 2.0. I was able to copy 5GB of files in about 2 minutes on 3.0 whereas 2.0 would take me about 10+ minutes.
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Depends on your performance requirement. I personally find that it cannot support heavy transfer over long periods.
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Tested once but didn't make a record. Not big difference in transfer rate. But I prefer thunderbolt cos it enable daisy chain setting
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I looked in the packaging and in the materials in the box and I couldn't find the distinction. With it being an external drive and transferring at the speed of USB 3... In not sure that will matter a whole lot unless you planned on cracking it open and installing the drives to your PC. I'm sure this can be found out on WD's website. My guess is its 5,400 due to the cost of the device being so low. As soon as I got the device I copied almost a terabyte of my baby pictures to it and it didn't seem slow an it wouldn't be often if move that quantity of data until I replace it.