How fast is this drive??? I am considering buying one of these but I'm not sure how fast it is. if someone has a benchmark or a technical specification sheet and would just tell me the read/write speed, that would be great.Thanks,Shawn How fast is this drive??? I am considering buying one of these but I'm not sure how fast it is. if someone has a benchmark or a technical specification sheet and would just tell me the... » Read More How fast is this drive??? I am considering buying one of these but I'm not sure how fast it is. if someone has a benchmark or a technical specification sheet and would just tell me the read/write speed, that would be great.Thanks,Shawn « Show Less
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Sandisk is remarkably bad for info. I know that the Titanium series is faster than the regular Micro, coming in at 15MB/s read speed & 9MB/s write speed. I seem to recall that the Micro is closer to 10MB read and 6MB write.
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This drive is NOT fast. If you want fast, buy the 8Gb micro Cruzer. I have both, and bought the 16gb because I love the no-cap-to-lose, and I love the 8Gb speed. But the 16bg is so much slower that Vista reports that Readyboost cannot use it. (The 8 gb said "Vista Readyboost" on the package, and I assumed that naturally the 16 gb would be fine. It's not, and doesn't say it is on the package.) After Vista tested it, it stated that it was too slow to be used by Readyboost, the somehow marked the unit and the option to use Readyboost no longer appears when I plug it in.
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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.
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I am using an older desktop computer and with a USB 3.0 card installed into my computer. Testing speed using HD Tune Pro and a 2GB file I get a write speed 105 MB/s and a read speed of 130MB/s. You will never get maximum stated speed as this is faster than a mechanical Hard Drive you would need a SSD Drive for maximum speed. I purchased the 64GB Version late 2013 and use every day and never had a problem and love the speed.
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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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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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Given that there are conflicting answers to this question on Amazon, and I really wanted to know before purchasing a drive, I contacted Seagate. Here's their response: " Unfortunately, part of the information is not provided at all. The RPM of our Expansion drives are not a provided specification, meaning the unit can run from 5400 RPMs to 7200 RPMs. We have no way to know which is it. It is not a guaranteed specification." So, it's a crap shoot. And it matters.
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Speeds vary with different PC's and hardware I get around the 120mbs. Also what kind of ssd you use, that is a real picture. They do get really hot fast, not good for you're Msata. I hope that helps.
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I have both the 256gb and the 1tb USB drives. So far I am quite impressed by the transfer speed and reliability of them. So much that I carry a great deal of information to include pictures and songs. So far neither one of them failed on me. You need to verify that the drive is a legitimate one by checking that on the USB port connector has the serial number engraved. I understand that there are some cheap ones on the market with a much lesser performance and capacity from what is described! I hope this may help!
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I have had the drive as my main operating system, as well as mass storage drive for almost a year, and so far, it has been reliable, fast, and quiet. However, as the previous person responded, I am using Linux, which does put less stress on the drive and the file system is a bit better at file allocation, ETC...My experience is very positive in this environment. (Using the 3TB version partitioned into three sections)
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I used it with PC, not Mac. And often it takes a little while before PC recognizes it.And by the way, I was disappointed with speed, Customer service was great, they also though the numbers I am telling are no good. They quickly sent me a replacement. But no difference. I used a 4TB 6GB Sata disk in it (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B99JU4S/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&ps;c=1) and tested it with HP Elite book. copying from an internal 7200rmp drive, big multi GB files and speed was at best 50-60MB, and on USB 2, 20-35 MB. While I have consistently got 100+mb on similar copy while copying on internal drives. I used it with PC, not Mac. And often it takes a little while before PC recognizes it.And by the way, I was disappointed with speed, Customer service was great, they also though the numbers I am telling are no good. They quickly sent me a replacement. But no difference. I used a 4TB 6GB Sata disk in it (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B99JU4S/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&ps;c=1) and tested it with HP Elite book. copying from an internal 7200rmp drive, big multi GB files and speed was at best 50-60MB, and on USB 2, 20-35 MB. While I have consistently got 100+mb on... » Read More I used it with PC, not Mac. And often it takes a little while before PC recognizes it.And by the way, I was disappointed with speed, Customer service was great, they also though the numbers I am telling are no good. They quickly sent me a replacement. But no difference. I used a 4TB 6GB Sata disk in it (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B99JU4S/ref=oh_details_o07_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&ps;c=1) and tested it with HP Elite book. copying from an internal 7200rmp drive, big multi GB files and speed was at best 50-60MB, and on USB 2, 20-35 MB. While I have consistently got 100+mb on similar copy while copying on internal drives. « Show Less
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In youtube there is such a video. A dude connects a flash drive into this and jumps to further velocities compared to 7200 rpm seagate backup plus
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In my experience, the drive has been great - I've been using it to burn DVDs/BD-Rs & it can be used for 3D playback so long as you have software that supports it. Is this the best drive on the market? No - some pricier drives have extra features, such as HD upscaling for DVDs (which I think is useless, btw). Is it the best drive under $100? Yeah, in my opinion, it is. In regards to write speed, it depends on the type of media: 16X is the fastest write speed for BD-R, 24X for DVD-R (but that speed is only available in DVD drives - the fastest DVD-R speed available on a BD drive is 16X), & 48X for CD-R. The -DL, -RW, & -RAM variants always have lower speeds. However, as the other answer mentions, the fastest BD-R discs currently available have a maximum write speed of 6X. In terms of read speed: the BD-R read speed may not be the best (12X), but it's plenty. It's faster than needed for BluRay playback & fine for the BD rips that I've done.
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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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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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Just as KrellSteel said, works fine once you use Disk Manager on it. I have a 4TB drive, a WD40EURX, and gave it a GUID partition with NTFS, and drive letter for convenience, and it's copying files like a champ as I type. Copying 200GB of data (5% of it's capacity) takes about 40 minutes.
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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
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Appreciate the feedback. What does 30mb per second read mean? Is that from the disk to camera? Or camera to PC? And if I do go lower what will i lose out on? i.e. what potential wil lbe untapped? Sorry...newbie here and appreciate your help.