someone said i needed to watch the USB 3.0 Issue." what does it mean ?
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It sound like this person might have had incompatibility issue with the USB 3.0 port and this device. I have used it with USB 2.0 and haven't had any issues. I will try it with USB 3.0 to see if there is any issues.
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I am not sure I understand your question...but this device works best with USB 3.0.
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Hi, Just bought the drive to read old disks. Opened it out "mint condition, in box, sealed" plugged it into my USB 3.0 hub on my Windows 8.1 Machine. Plugged in a barely used zip cartridge from 10 years ago. Bam there it was.Plug and Play no problem. 15 year old "new device" with USB 1.0 port, works flawlessly on Windows 8.1 Pro via USB 3.0 Hub. I've had more issues with some USB 3.0 hard drives than this.Actually really surprised.
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My new lap top recognizes it as USB 3 but my older PC does not. Their customer service was very helpful but in the end I returned it as I wanted it for my PC and it did not work as 3.0 with that computer.
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You'll probably need a USB 3.0 specific outlet on your laptop or computer in order to get true 3.0 speed
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It didn't work for me with a single USB 3.0 port. I also had to connect the additional cable to the USB 2.0 port I have to power the drive.
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The USB is a standard physical device that knows nothing about the operating system. The most likely issue is the USB driver, which you should probably upgrade.
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my PC has 2 USB ports that are 3.0 if that's the question you're referring to
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If you do not have usb 3.0 on your computer then you have to use both usb to get power and data.
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Thanks Dean, the drive was working so the format is probably OK. When you plug in the USB the charge light comes on but the data side is obviously not working as the drive is not recognised. You can hear the disks spinning but they are very quiet. Thanks again for your help. Regards: Brendan
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Your IT dept. likely requires you to check with them for anything accessing data via USB, not something like this which only uses the USB as a power source. If the IT dept. has to have you check for something like this, then you need someone new in the IT dept. that better understands what IT is supposed to be doing.
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According to Toshiba it is a software error message, often caused by a failed firmware upgrade. There is no fix available. They offered to sell me a replacement, but I can get a replacement cheaper on Ebay or Amazon
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Based on when this was introducer, I doubt it's USB 3. If your internal storage is either flash or SD, it really doesn't make much difference whether you have USB 2 or USB 3 port speed - the storage element write speed will be the gateing item.
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If you plug a usb 2.0 device into a usb 3.0 slot it was operate as usb 2.0.
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It means that you must use an USB port on your computer. I highly recommend this product as it fired right up on all of versions of windows.
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I must say its false marketing from Asus saying it has USB 3.0 on some models when its impossible to buy it, at least no sellers on the net specify it, what I have found.. (perhaps only one model is sold in one copy and is locked in the Asus test lab in China, yeah right so much fuss for that extra *** in the finetext of the specs)Why not be more clear on what models are with USB3.0 why not name it 1015PED-U3 instead?
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Thanks to you all for your response. I guess I will have to live with USB 2.0 speed