The speed of this drive is only 5400rpm - does the Thunderbolt interface even make a difference because of the slow disk speed?
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It's very different with this drive , I am having difficulty in transferring large files as 500 GB in with normal hardisck, but with this I am very happy and relieved, especially with Thunderbolt , but if you mean the thunderbolt with normal disk .. i don`t know actually .
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Yes the disk speed will affect the transfer speed. But your SATA connection will also make a difference. From my understanding a usb 2 will not max out a 5400 HDD's potential transfer speed. You should see an increase using both usb3 and TB. However, you will not get the 10GB/s without having an SSD and SATA 6 connection in your computer.
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The short answer is no. Your speed will most definitely be limited by the slow 5400rpm disk. It will not take full advantage of the Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 bandwidth. I'll be getting a Thunderbolt drive with SSD.
2274052
I had a different USB connected back up drive prior to this model . I will say that the " Thunderbolt connection loads faster upon initial plug in .
1811993
If you're referring to the DVD super drive from Apple it uses USB not thunderbolt.http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD564ZM/A/apple-usb-superdrive
1884275
This model has a 1TB 5400RPM HDD, but also has a free hard drive bay. The first thing I did was buy a 500GB Samsung 840 SDD to boost system performance. I reinstalled windows on the new SSD and only use the 1 TB drive for movies, music, and other media.
442160
Its a samsung drive. Its pretty darn fast. I replaced a quadcore mac pro with this and havent looked back.
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First remember that this is a pair of hard drives, with up to 233 MB/s data transfer rates. This is well short of maximum of Thunderbolt 1 or 2. Furthermore, it does not have a second port to make a chain, so downstream data rates are not relevant. So, though it is Thunderbolt 1, changing to Thunderbolt 2 would not make any difference to any related or relevant performance.
1475583
I have not had any problems with this ssd.And I did research on it as well according to my findings it is the fastest drive for the buck.Check Tom's hardware for the publication.
2011967
You should email them. The Red drives that they put in these units are not 7200RPM.
888330
I don't know the exact speeds, but it's one of the slower drives I have. I have the 8GB version and I don't recommend it.
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Yes I swapped in a Crucial 512GB M4 SATA. Thunderbolt works fine but believe it or not the USB3 interface had faster read times!
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The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
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The 1TB and 2TB versions of this drive are 7200RPM, the 4TB version is 5900RPM. REF: http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/sshd-fam/desktop-sshd/en-us/docs/100726566c.pdf
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I'm going to replace my 500MB 7200rpm hard drive. How will this compare in speed? I'm basically at 90-93% full due to photos and music!
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I'm getting just under 130MB/s read and write. It took under 2 hours to copy some files (around a TB) that took seven hours under USB 2.0.
199587
Thunderbolt is the newer Apple/Mac standard, and is supposed to be faster. Fewer Thunderbolt-ready devices available though. I have the firewire version of the HD, and it is a huge speed increase over USB.
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I don't know, but my Thunderbolt version effectively has no fan noise at all and the drive in it's black enclosure is much much quieter than the duel-disk 8TB Hitachi G-Raid w/fan sitting just next to the Seagate on the same desk. I cannot hear the Seagate spinning, in fact.
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My apologies for not get back to you sooner . I don't know about how fast the RPM's are on this drive. I think it would be based on thee fact of the speed transfer rate. I looked up info for the drive including the BUFFALO website but i did not find anything. Is a fast drive, good luck