The backup speed with this product is painfully slow and has not yet completed a full backup without crashing. Help
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I have no idea how much of a back up you are trying to do but what I did was set up the back up and went to bed and I got up in the morning and it was done. Ya this thing is not a rocket ship for sure
1820892
If it is a first time back up it takes time. Mine took two days for 1TB. All future backups only captured the changed (new) files. I use COX. If you are on DSL you have a problem (century link) Good luck
535700
Yes too slow. I used something else that allowed me to transfer hundreds of gigs in a few minutes instead of days. Do a search for USB ssd enclose.
276373
If Carbonite is working for you I'd say stick with it. Having offsite backup is a good idea since it's unaffected should you have a house fire, flood, etc. As I said my review, I have serious issues with the speed of this drive. Backing up 1GB of data took well over an hour. By comparison, I was able to download the 4GB Mountain Lion update in just about an hour, on the same network, and both via wifi. Other reviewers have mentioned speed issues as well, so if you are concerned about possible problems I'd say that's the biggest possible one.
2006683
You will have to do a firmware upgrade to 2.1, operating system upgrade to 64 bit Mountain Lion. However, really not much improvement at the end of the day. I would look into a SSD hard drive for more performance.
193926
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....
1085866
File transfer is a bit slow. You may want to look into a Thunderbolt drive instead.
2267224
I have not seen the actual specs, but it is slow , probably 5400rpm . This drive is good for back up, not immediate access time. That costs more , you know. DR
1568457
The HDD speed doesn't matter as this product will eventually corrupt the drive.(5400 rpm IIRC)
755441
I tried to update from the company but it didn't work either. But it still running fine at the writing speed roughly 80-90Mb/s. But don't know for some reason sometimes fail to write
171400
Try using Seagate Dashboard 3.0 and following the instructions for remote saving of specified data. I have call the help line and found them to be extremely helpful. Note that some areas I hoped were included as part of the remote backup and access were not available. I apparently misread the features/instructions.
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Well, all 4 of ours work pretty well, albeit they are not stunningly fast. I did notice the performance really slows down after the first couple TB of small files. But I suspect that's due to Samba, and I wish I could get into the unit, O/S wise, to tune it
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I had the same "issue" and decided to install an updated version of office. At my office, I'm moving files onto a stand alone drive so that I don't lose any information and plan to transfer it when I reload "7". Safest thing I can come up with. Sorry, wish I could help more! DonDon
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not sure if this will help.....but DONT BUY THIS Hard Drive, even though crucial says they fixed the issue with the Firmware but they havent, it shuts down every 60 minutes.
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If you can, try a different flash drive and/or using the flash drive in another port to make sure it's not the problem. Do as other answers say, check that your connection to the motherboard is good and possibly check drivers. If the flash drive works elsewhere then reformatting it probably wont help, but it doesn't hurt to try. Otherwise, sounds like a bad unit. I transfer large files all the time with no issue.
2037500
Google it...it's just a slow 1 terabyte hard drive produced by Western Digital...you can buy from Amazon or Newegg
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Don't buy either, the software easily becomes defective, which halts communication for backup or retrieval, and is hard disk resident thereby rendering the whole system dysfunctional. If you could independently download the resident software through your computer this problem would be fixed, but you can't as of now.
185643
Hi Craig, Thanks for your useful input. At this stage I think I too should have gone for the 1TB model. Now I can't seem to download video clips onto the 1.5 TB. It starts off OK then freezes and the usual Task Manager solutions don't seem to help and I end up with the dreaded blue screen. I have to switch off and start again. Very boring. If anyone has a solution would be most grateful for help