How fast is the disk spindle speed? Their web doesn't show detail spec as I'm assuming they want to hide?
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You're not buying a Tesla. this is the best external hard drive on the market.initial backup was about 20 to 30 minutes and every back up after that is around 15 to 20 minutes. Their phone number is 971/246-8200.
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I just chatted with Samsung and they said the S03US has a 5400 rpm drive, but Amazon is showing 7200. All the other specs look the same. I did see some posts where the S)3US came with Windows 7 Pro instead of the Home edition. We'll have to see.
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I assume you're asking whether it's faster than a conventional hard disk drive. The answer is yes, much faster.
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This is unit so slow that only the preposterous expense of it will keep you from smashing it.It's too slow to delete files from. It's too slow to backup to. It's too slow to work from. it's too slow to do much of anything with. You may be able to write data to it at UP to 20MB/s when it's completely new and empty. Once it gets full we're talking like 1-6MB/s, or so slow to reply that your client machine simply drops the network connection assuming it's not there anymore. Right now I'm trying to delete 555 files from one. It's got 416 items left to delete. it has been over 10 minutes.... This is unit so slow that only the preposterous expense of it will keep you from smashing it.It's too slow to delete files from. It's too slow to backup to. It's too slow to work from. it's too slow to do much of anything with. You may be able to write data to it at UP to 20MB/s when it's completely new and empty. Once it gets full we're talking like 1-6MB/s, or so slow to reply that your client machine simply drops the network connection assuming it's not there anymore. Right now I'm trying to delete 555 files from one. It's got 416 items left to delete. it has been over 10 minutes....
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it does lack of speed sometimes, and i hate the pre installed adwares and windows 8... it doesn't really seem to be so good as they make it look. BUT NO, I DON'T HAVE THE LID PROBLEM.
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It *is* SSD. All SSDs are not the same speed, but this will certainly be faster than any platter disk.
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http://www.storagereview.com/buffalo_drivestation_ddr_review_hdgdu3 Look under the performance heading on this website.
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My guess (as it's so hard to find the rpm spec anywhere on the WD site) is that it's 5400rpm. That said, it's pretty zippy and I've had no problems (other than Pro Tools refusing to work with it due to the non-Oxford chipset) streaming audio and video from it.
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This is too slow to use for surveillance applications by itself. You want at least a 7200 RPM spin rate to keep up. I have one and it drops frames. I'm leaving the OS on this one and will get WD RE 3 TB Enterprise Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA III, 64 MB Cache for video database. Much more expensive, but should get the job done right. If you have this in a high speed RAID enclosure then the slower write speed is masked by performance boost of the RAID.
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Sorry I did not notice. I immediately replace the drive with a solid state drive and new OS 10.4 which makes these a really nice fast machine.
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Thank you for the info, I'll take a look. By the way would you recommend a 1tb 5400rpm or a 750gb 7200rpm? Is the speed trade-off worth the space trade off? thank you
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Right, RPM would be about revolutions of a drive, however now with hybrid drives you will still see RPM but they have mixed storage creating an advanced cache so the performance is a lot better.
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I can check later when I take it offline. Right now the green disk access light is flashing rapidly indicating a lot of disk activity. In other words, it is currently recording some TV via my Snapstream / Beyond TV recording software. I'll get back to this maybe next week. I do know that it is 7200 RPM.
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That's exactly what I'm doing and why I bought this; however I am certainly no hardware guru. It takes a while for it to show upon explorer (4-5 secs), windows needs to read it, etc. I would go to the internet and find a forum that has a topic for hardware, giving them the model, intent, etc. Let me know what you find out. I am interested. My final goal it to set up a RAID, still need one more hard drive.
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The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
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I have a 16 GB SSD and a 5400 RPM. Watchout, the disk name is WD7500 but it stands for 750GB not 7500rpm; hopefully the previous commenter is right.
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It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives).My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well. It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives).My suggestion is ...... » Read More It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives).My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well. « Show Less