Transcend Storejet 1TB Portable USB 3.0 Hard Disk review please. pro and cons?
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I have several external portable disk drives, the brands are Western Digital and Transcend. The last time I purchased a drive I chose Transcend for price and the sporty shock absorbing case. Overall I see no difference between the Transcend drive and my WD drives. So I guess as mentioned above the pros are (1) Cost and (2) rugged case. Cons, non at this time. I would definitely buy this drive again!
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Honestly right now I don't have any issue at all and it does the job on what it is supposed to be, except that I didn't drop it yet and I don't want too, eventhough it is a shock-proof which is what I like.
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I backup on demand and have used my Toshiba once since the upgrade and I had no difficulty. Fingers crossed!
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups... I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner. BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable! Fingers crossed on reliability, Yikesboy
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I didn't have any negative issues with it. I use Nexus Media Importer, ES File App as well as Astro File App. I am very satisfied the the Kingston OTG.
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I use the portable device all the time on 7200 RPM 2.5" drives. It works just fine for reading and duplicating drives at those speeds without issues for me. I can't answer to anything faster like 10K drives since I don't have any of those just yet. Don't have any 5400 RPM drives either. I recommend this product - easy to use.
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This drive was designed to be used in a desktop or tower. Don't buy this one. Look for an external drive that terminates with a USB plug. It doesn't have to be USB 3.0, 2.0 will support all the speed a CD or DVD can handle.
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It all depends whether you need a drive that will last well with repeated use - from my experience, the SATA card which links the hard drive to the power/data transfer port that your USB lead plugs into is poor quality and too flimsy, meaning that it fails reasonably quickly if you're using it on a daily basis like myself. The unit looks great and the case is very robust, but functionality-wise, and as recommended earlier, I'd go for the Buffalo Mini Station Extreme which is proving far more reliable for regular use.
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I have the WDE1UBK10000N and it is a solid well built external! I don't think you can go wrong with the elements terabyte hdd!
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Hi Tran,I have been bringing this HD to & for office and while traveling I leave it in my bag, I am rather rough with placing down and carrying my bag and as of to date, there are no issue with the function of the HD. My kids did ever took out the HD and dropped it twice on the floor from their baby high chair, well I must said the HD is still surviving. It is definitely a well worth purchase HD. Trust me, you will not regret. I have previously had Iomega HD but the connection joint between the hard disk and cable got loosen and the whole HD just dies off. Can you imagine that! Anyway I would recommend you to get this. Hi Tran,I have been bringing this HD to & for office and while traveling I leave it in my bag, I am rather rough with placing down and carrying my bag and as of to date, there are no issue with the function of the HD. My kids did ever took out the HD and dropped it twice on the floor from their baby high chair, well I must said the HD is still surviving. It is definitely a well worth purchase HD. Trust me, you will not regret. I have previously had Iomega HD but the connection joint between the hard disk and cable got loosen and the whole HD just dies off. Can you imagine that! Anyway... » Read More Hi Tran,I have been bringing this HD to & for office and while traveling I leave it in my bag, I am rather rough with placing down and carrying my bag and as of to date, there are no issue with the function of the HD. My kids did ever took out the HD and dropped it twice on the floor from their baby high chair, well I must said the HD is still surviving. It is definitely a well worth purchase HD. Trust me, you will not regret. I have previously had Iomega HD but the connection joint between the hard disk and cable got loosen and the whole HD just dies off. Can you imagine that! Anyway I would recommend you to get this. « Show Less
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As yet, I've not needed tech support. I installed a 1TB drive and as I mentioned in my review, the documentation leaves some to be desired. You _have_ to format the drive before the device will make it visible to computers plugged into the USB port. I verified that I can read 32GB CF and SD cards and that I can get the files off the drive over the USB port. Those are the main functions I'm counting on.
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I have a used this drive with a 64 GB card and 128GB there has been no trouble with it being read and the speed is the same as the 32 GB cards I have used with the Transcend Information USB 3.0. Hope this helps out.
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Like most external USB drives, I'd not rely on it for long-term backups over one year. Augment it with a cloud product that is acceptable for the type of data being backed up (i.e. personal, confidential, commercial, etc.). In my experience, none of the disks used in these devices are high-grade, and in commercial applications, we'll go to a NAS with RAID.
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No, or it would be considerably more expensive. 5400RPM / 8MB cache per mfg's Web site. I found it fast enough to please me when backing up data and plugged into a modern USB 3.0 port, but quite a bit slower attached to an older computer that only had USB 2.0 ports.
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I keep it just plugged in all the time regardless of what I do with the (desktop) computer. The drive seems to be performing well and I think I've had it more than a year. I'm using it for local file sync'ing. It's usb so you should not need to mount or unmount.
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I don't have any experience with either of these programs, but being that it is solid state and 1Tb you should not have any storage problems. Sorry I could not be of more help.
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The drive is used for dvd backups and picture storage. When the old drive failed, I purchased another USB 3.0. That didn't help. I recovered almost 1 TB in two days. Then, since I had not yet received the new 3.0 card, I tried using the USB 2.0 to transfer from another backup (a western digital) to the Seagate. In 3 days, I moved about 300 Gb. That was left on 24 hours, too. After I got and installed the new 3.0 (I still doubted the old one), all remaing 500 plus Gb moved in less than 3 hours!. I never measured or recorded the speed. And the old 3.0 USB worked similarly.
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Whatever fits your personal need. I would do cloud storage since I'm on the go. But here are some of your options 1) External HDD 2) Cloud storage 3) USB sticks