Is this drive faster or slower than the 4 TB model?
1965735
As far as I can tell they should be the same. PCIe bus or RAID configuration are probably the bigger factors (same). There maybe some difference in individual drives but probably not. The difference in price with capacity pretty much made the choice.
1965736
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.
1965737
I'm pretty sure the transfer speeds are the same, they both use the thunderbolt connection.
1965738
Wow! I think it'd depend on how you use it and set it up. For me the 4TB with thunderbolt has been faster. But I use it mainly for moving data between my mac and the backups.
557176
I'm using it for 1 TB drive, so I think it should work as well for 4 TB drive.
1526252
I do not recall. I do not think the rotational speed of the drive would explain such incredibly slow transfer rates I was getting about 10 MB per hour.
1155078
I have a 3tb drive in mine and it works fine I don't see any reason why it won't work with a 4 Tb drive
979846
I have yet to see a HDD run at 6 GBps. It does seem to be as fast as if the drive was internally installed.
1826851
Mine is installed in my ps4 and it is much faster than the 5400rpm stock. It boots, sleeps, and shuts off twice as fast as my friends with the stock drive. I'm sure you'd see performance boosts in a laptop or pc
1786849
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.
1123021
I currently have a 3TB drive in it and it's working fine. I cannot comment on 4TB.
756892
Yes green drives are only 5200 RPM much slower than 7200 just to save 10 watts of power. The WD black drive is the highest performing mechanical drive there is.
817425
If you are using an older machine that does not have USB 3.0 support the slower transfer rate can cause an issues such as this and there is no fix. If you are using a USB 3.0 port make sure your motherboard drivers and bois settings are up to date. After trying all this if the drive continues not to perform to your expectations I would exchange it for a different one.
2100639
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
1031949
I see 4 TB drives on the approved list: https://lenovo-na-en.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/30797/related/1
1841859
It depends on your user environment. 7200 rpm drives will be more responsive to a certain extent. However, slower spinning drives run cooler and require less power. Depending on your usage scenario you might benefit choosing either. You need to carefully assess what it is that you need to accomplish. There is an excellent review on anandtech that was published recently where multitude of NAS drives were put to the test. Every drive tested had redeeming factors. You might want to check it out. Article title "wd red pro review 4 tb-drives for nas systems benchmarked. Hope this helps.
1012388
An easy way to test that out is to have a 3.0 flash drive and transfer a 2-4gig file (a movie works nicely) and compare the speed. The 3.0 is noticeably faster. I found that the instructions that came with my laptop were not reliable in that regard. I hope this of some help to you.
291736
4TB drive is the fastest of the bunch since it has more platters than the 2TB or 1TB version. So if you are looking for the fastest non-SSD drive out there, it would be the 4TB version of the WD Black.
892179
Most welcome. You might consider getting the 64 GB version of this drive instead of the 16 GB. It will give you a lot more flexibility, and at $24.99 you'll be paying 39 cents/GB instead of 63 cents/GB for the 16 GB drive. Just a thought.
771401
The 1.5TB model is much higher density, which could result in faster performance in some cases. I have been using the HGST 1.5 tb drive in a macbook ODD bay for a few months now and I am very happy with it. The only thing to consider for a PS4 is how important the hard drive speed is. If you care a lot about hard drive speed, then a Hybrid Drive like the Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive would be a better choice.