How fast is this 1 TB harddrive compared to a 3.0 harddrive from Seagate?
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It's slower being it's usb 2.0. I don't know what the benchmark numbers for usb 3.0 but I would assume it's quite a bit faster. I had need of the older legacy 2.0 and the price was right for me.
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Here is the correct configuration: Total Hard Drive Capacity: 1 TB Hard Drive Interface: Serial ATA Hard Drive RPM: 7200
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.
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Speed wise they're close 600Mb/s for SATA 3, and 625MB/s for USB 3, but they're not really comparable. The SATA speeds are for conventional HDD, and the USB speed would be for SSDs.
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You are correct (and previous answer is not). The drive interface is 6Gb/sec (that's gigabits per second), as it says on the label. This is the standard speed of Sata3. This translates to roughly 600MB/sec - plenty enough to carry the quoted 550 MB/ sec the drive is capable of.
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If you are going to get a 2.5 drive, go with the 6.0mbps transfer rate!! or you will not get the full functionallity that comes with having the solid state portion of the drive. It requires you to be able to set the drive up as ACHI in the BIOS, or else it will just function like any other 3.0mbps hard drive. I have 3 Seagate 500 Hybrids in a raid with each drive partitioned in half. giving me a theoretical 6 drives at 250 gb per drive. I like having my games on their own partitions, for faster read times, and my startups are under 2 mins.
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YES - is a VERY FAST USB3 1TB HARD DISK !!! WITH THE ABILITY to connect to your PCs wirless !!
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.
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I am migrating to the WD Red drives. I have the 3 TB versions and will start using the 4 TB versions as I upgrade. I had Seagate Barracuda 2 TB ST2000DM001's installed and they have been failing VERY consistently. I deployed the Seagate's at work in a DS1511+ and have had similar issues with them there. I am replacing them with WD Reds. I wanted the higher spindle speed of the Seagate's but to have them failing so much I'm never using them again. Thankfully I recovered before we had a catastrophic failure.
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I use four Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDDs which can be found here: Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001) . It has been running non-stop for nearly a year with no issues.
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Depends on the configuration... If you don't change the RAID setup, it should be faster than a single 4 TB drive because it distributes the writing and reading across the two drives.
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With this drive, the USB 2.0 read speed is 30 megabits/sec, and the USB 3.0 read speed is 255 megabits/sec.
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If you are referring to the SATA HDD connection, it is 3 gb/sec per the board manufacturer's specifications.
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I have not seen the actual specs, but it is slow , probably 5400rpm . This drive is good for back up, not immediate access time. That costs more , you know. DR
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Interestingly enough, Seagate has chosen to NOT list the speed of the drive either on the box, on the actual drive or even in the rather skimpy documentation. It is possible that the Seagate site might be able to tell you. All I can say is that it is very quiet and I can't complain about the data transfer rate.
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I've had no issues with the speed of the unit. It really depends on the drives you use.
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For this technical question I would go to www.seagate.com, and look at the technical specification chart for ST1000DX001 drive.