A keck of a lot faster.
355192
Its a know fact that a lot people these days have more than one gizmo they have to charge using a USB plug and there never seems to be a charger or USB wall charger. I personally have an iPhone, iPad, a apple pencil, a portable charging pack, my USB head set and ear plugs and even a medical use on my glucose meter and a TENS unit. So Okay I don't need to charge these at the same time but its usually my phone and tablet that needs charging at the same time. I usually charge my phone and tablet while watching TV during the evening. I try to keep an eye on how thing are going by looking and seeing what the charge percentage is. The plain old wall socket did a pretty good job and when they were at 100% I would unplug them I read somewhere you shouldn't leave you phone or tablet or I guess anything connected to the power outlet. Well after plugging this wall socket in and then hooking up the phone and tablet I did my normal TV surfing. Oh by the way. There's a nice little blue light coming out of each connection. Made it a lot easier to plug the cord in the right way. Please Apple get to using those C connections. To make a long story short the phone and tablet were close to fully charged within about one and a half hours. I'm hoping to take photos of the phone and tablet next to the stop watch so I can get an accurate reading. For now though, they are considerably faster than using just a wall outlet. I have another one in my wish list.
2797985
Pretty much summed it up with title don't ya think?  Rocket science it's not.  That being said, it showed up super fast.  :)
2582042
I wish this little fan had different speeds. I just got it, unpacked it, turned it on, and I would LOVE it if I could turn it town a little bit. The fan is pumping away right fast and is really getting the job done of circulating the air - it's more powerful that you'd expect.  I just wish that it had several speeds to chose from like other fans. It's also louder than I expected it to be - but I'm still getting used to the noise.

As for size, it's about the size of a large coffee mug in height.  Doesn't take up more space than a tape dispenser on the desk.
2040490
Fast. It is all I need. Everything else is secondary.
It is a bit too big, but it is not a problem.
1196550
very fast, shoots a little high do to the faster speed. I have ordered these before and I am very happy with them.
1277797
This is a seriously fast hard drive.  Color me impressed.  Western Digital is really moving up in my book.

OK, so on it's face, this seems like your basic 1TB external hard drive.  It has its own power supply, which many will find to be cumbersome, but for this level of performance I think it's worth it.  However, this is not your basic 1TB external.  For one, it has a superfast USB 3.0 interface, and it comes with its own USB 3.0 expansion card if your motherboard doesn't already have one (and at the time of this writing, there are less than a handful of new motherboards that do).  The expansion card requires a free PCI-E slot.

Setup:
I tested this on Windows 7 Ultimate x64.  Windows did not automatically find drivers for the USB 3.0 expansion card, but the WD package includes a driver disc.  The drivers aren't just sitting on the disc, you have to run an installer on the disc.  The installation requires no restart, which is great, because that's always a little scary when installing strange new hardware.  After the card is installed, you can just plug the drive in and go.  What's nice is that Windows views the drive as an actual hard drive and not just removable media -- a minor point.

Performance:
Using TeraCopy (which is fantastic file copy alternative), I was able to get between 94 and 101 MB / sec write speeds!  That's super fast.  By comparison, my WD Caviar Black RE3 1TB drive only does around 63 MB/sec write speeds, and I thought that was nice!  I haven't tested read speeds, but I expect them to be pretty high.  USB 3.0 has a 4.8 GB/sec limit so the bottleneck here is certainly not the bus.

Sound:
The drive is dead silent, and the white LED on the front is not blinding in any way.  It resembles the light on a Mac Mini.

Convenience:
Since USB 3.0 is new, you're not likely to find it around too much just yet.  But you can still plug this guy into regular old USB 2.0.  You'll get around 25 MB/sec write speeds with that.  But just the fact that you can do it is convenient.  Having to carry around the power supply, however, is not.  And you have to be careful with your USB 3.0 cable because there's only one.

Price:
I think the price is pretty good for this level of performance and also considering they give you a USB 3.0 expansion card.  You'd pay about the same for an enterprise-level, internal WD RE3 drive of this size.

Negatives:
I wish there was eSATA because then I wouldn't need a free PCI-E slot or have to open up my computer to install it.  But the deed is done, and now I have an extra USB 3.0 port for some other device.  Still, eSATA would be nice.  Maybe there are USB3 to eSATA adapters...
Only a 2 year warranty?!  That's rough for a 1TB drive.  WD internal drives run between 3 and 5 year warranties.  But I suppose they're not willing to put that kind of warranty on an external drive that gets moved around a lot.  Still, a longer warranty would instill more confidence that my data is safer.  Backing up 1TB worth of data is not easy or cheap.

Conclusion:
I would absolutely recommend this thing.  I was a little skeptical at first, but the numbers don't lie.  This thing is fast.
3058009
Wow, 6 times faster than the original Raspberry Pi, lots of power, boots in like less than 10 seconds, compared to over a minute of the old RP
377626
writing and reading speeding is fast. it 's ok to create a windows to go on it too.
625470
Huge difference in not only the smoothness of the drive, but also handling.
4104658
Much faster than the linksys it replaced at a much more competitive price.
2178225
It is much faster than the fore stick. Plus you can plug an ethernet wire from the router. Plus it has 4k capabilities.
1866824
Moves large amounts of snow quickly and without the fear of collateral damage.
3840699
Still not top-of-the-line fast, but even in RAW, you'll get a lot of shots done before you need pop a fresh chip in.
2814007
A very fast computer. Added a flash memory drive for C:, and it boots in about 15 seconds. And that's from completely off.
4062399
So right away you can tell that this thing is much faster than a HDD. The time it took from going from sleep mode to connecting to the internet was 13s on the HDD, and now its 3s on the SSD. Cold boot time went from right at 32s to 10s. Easy to install, it does not come with any software so if you plan on making this your primary Disk drive, you will need to get some software that would mirror your current drive. Other than that, I am really happy with it. I cannot say I see a real change in battery life but then again I purchased a larger battery at the same time I purchased this.
119107
Really fast drive though I'm seeing other drives now that are either larger capacity for a similar price or much smaller in physical size. Progress rolls on.
1982348
Very fast....Bought the 12 footer for a friend a couple weeks later because it wasn't much more at all.  Never had issue with either one.