Does the electronics hold up to sustained transfers of 500GB without disconnecting?
1299850
It should. The most I copied about 100GB at one time to my 1TB. I have connected it to a USB 3 - 10 port hub and directly to the PC . I have never needed to use the 5v power port. Hope this helps. Kenn
1299851
I have copied virtual machine folders with multiple 80GB individual files (160gb total), through a USB 3 hub, without any issues. I wouldn't expect there to be any issue with a transfer of 500gb. Take care to keep the computer and enclosure stationary during the transfer as movement in the USB connection can cause unwanted disruption.
2000449
Sure! It's great. Just remember to disconnect with the Safely Remove Hardware feature for XP and prior O/S's. If you have a lot to transfer, you need to make sure your Host PC doesn't time out. You can set to "never" in the Control Panel. I hope that helps.
2048984
I am not sure of a 500GB as I don't have one that size to test, but I have used an old 40GB IDE WD drive and it worked fine.
466450
I have 8 4tb drives running a raid 5 for my media server with no issues. Transfer rate is 6gb/s. Read and write would be a combination of your drives and controller but more your drives then the controller. But flashpoint is right. If you need performance then you will need to go high endon the controller. But I honestly can't picture the need for something better
413437
I don't know about older ones, i have had mine about 18 mos. i used it to transfer files from my dell w/win-7 to my hp w/win-8 everything that i wanted to move over wend well no trouble & i'm 84 yrs, so if i can , i's u could. i think it works good. FGG.
809744
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!
850078
For the record mine have stayed connected and held up great so far. Also streams music from my phone...everything from stored music to Pandora to Netflix.
285312
You will find only negatives answer questions like this. I've had the 128gb model for over a year. I'm a photographer, i keep my lightroom catalog on it and all of my current working files. I transfer large amounts of data between this and my home network as i work, along with editing the files directly on the flash drive. Bottom line is this drive gets used very heavily. Still going strong.
362107
I am not sure. I have about 600 on mine but have never noticed if they all run through or not. Mine are on a flash drive.
166011
You will need a 400 to 800 cable, and your data transfer will only be at the slower rate; apart from that, you shoudn't have any problems. As I write I have an 800 disk connected to my MacBook that way.
1827093
Depends on the file system you use, out of the box it can transfer files upto ~64GB
753033
I just purchased this one. After reading some people had to "play with the plugs" to get it to work I partially pulled out the USB2.0 plug and it has stayed working so far. It was cycling in and out randomly so I could not transfer anything since it would disconnect sporadically.I am still in the middle of cloning my HDD but it is pretty solid so far. Must be a quality control issue with the connections.
498913
yes. it does. nothing to do on your parts it keeps what it can then deletes some and keeps going. keeps about 3 weeks worth per 500 gb drive
175879
USB devices are generally backward compatible. The transfer will be slower, though.
1190641
My answer is both yes and no. I purchased two identical units of this model at separate times. One has been working ok (good) other is totally unreliable (bad), i.e., either needs to repeat a process(insert-remove) many times until finally show up or the icon fails to show up. No icon means no file transfer possible. I have five (16GB) flash drives in total made by three different manufacturers and find one made by Kingston to be most reliable so far.
1769612
Yes. And transfer rate is fast if the other drive is also 3.0. If not then it will be limited to the transfer speed of the drive
2023809
I've had no problems at all with the USB. Transfer time are longer because the images (and especially high speed video) themselves are larger. You do have to press the power button after plugging it in to activate. It charges through the USB port. I did have one SD card go bad, but the SAN Disk Extreme Plus 80MB/s is holding up well.