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USB 2.0 probably should add that to the title.
and high failure rate of these Hitachi drives should be added to the descripotion too! :P
Link?
based on what?
Apart from anything though, who would use USb 2.0 on 3TB drive?LOL, yeah! USB 2.0 is bad enough on a 4GB DVD ISO.
I just added a cheapo PCI-e card to my PC, so I finally have 2 x USB 3.0 ports. The card was the cheapest $10 one from Meritline, and it's in a PCI-e ver 1.0 slot, so it can't get full speed.
Using a Seagate 7200rpm 1TB drive it's reading at over 80MB/sec (until the drive gets slower than that, at around 700GB), which is almost 3 times faster than I could get on the same drive and (USB 3) dock in a USB 2.0 port.
Oddly, the internal Samsung SATA drives are getting slower speeds that the external USB one. Hmmm… something going wrong in there!
To be honest, if I buy one of these it'll be to dismantle and make it an internal.
"Oddly, the internal Samsung SATA drives are getting slower speeds that the external USB one. Hmmm… something going wrong in there!"
You're probably running your primary HDD in IDE mode. Needs to be in AHCI. Check your BIOS. You may also need to update your drivers for your storage controllers, USB Host Controllers and chipset (check your motherboard manufacturer's website). You should be doing this regularly anyway.
Consult the following guides on the registry hack required for changing SATA modes:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=313676
http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7-rc…
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976Do this BEFORE changing your BIOS SATA operation mode or you will need to reinstall Windows.
Michael J Fox double-clicked and posted twice LOL
I'm using 5 Hitachi 3Tb 5400rpm drives right now. All are going fine. Got a link to a study that reports the high failure rate?
im looking a but a external HDD can someone point me in the right direction of what i should buy as i dont no alot about the brands and stuff im looking a around 1tb or more :) any help would be really appreciated
Get USB 3.0 for "future proofing".
For over 750GB or so, they use external power bricks. The ones with a plug pack are neater than the ones with inline power brick. Pretty much all 1TB and above use 3.5" drives. The smaller capacities use either 2.5" laptop drives which means they run from USB alone.
Personally I don't like the small ones as they are often slower, but they are a lot easier to transport. If I need to move files, I use a USB Stick, but then again I don't carry my movie collection around with me.
I am in the process of clearing out all my 1TB drives (including those in my server), as they are becoming too small. The 2TB is generally considered the "sweet spot" on price/capacity at the moment, but because of that sometimes a bargain 1TB comes up from time to time.
Personally I like Western Digital, but when it gets right down to it, all the main brands are pretty much identical in "quality". Basically there is Samsung, Western Digital, Seagate, Fujitsu/IBM, Hitachi (are there any others?) - all the brands use one of those drives inside.
The name brand external drives are usually considered better because they make both drive and controller. A lot of the 2.5" ones apparently have an integrated controller and cannot be ripped apart to extract the bare drive (for use inside a computer). Most 3.5" external drives have a standard SATA hard drive inside, so you can extract the guts and reuse elsewhere (cheaper than buying a bare drive at the moment).
thank u so much for that ! i will wait around for a 2tb bargain :) thanks again
Says on Shopping Express that these are USB2.0.
But on the Hitachi site, the Touro DEsk Pro are USB 3.0 compliant, and USB 2.0 back compatible.
Good bargain for a 3Tb and USB 3.0
does anyone know which drives are in these??
I'd assume they'd be the 5400 RPM models, the 5K3000.
For the uninformed claiming that they have high failure rates, these drives are currently the favourite drive of Backblaze, they claim the reliability of these drives is exceptional
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v…
I am currently using the HDS5C3030ALA630 in my server, have 8 running in RAID6 using an Adaptec 5805. They are running 24x7 and no problems at all. They have been used for months now.
At this price it is a good grab, fortunately for me I acquired mine before the floods at $140 a pop.
Approx 30 minutes left. Still in stock.
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Can I take off my positive??
Appears that this is mis-advertised product.
Item is stipulated as the Touro Desk "Pro"….however, the model number is for the Touro Desk.
Difference is that the Pro is USB 3.0 compliant and 2.0 compatible, the Desk model is USB 2.0 only…awaiting to hear from Shopping Express.
they changed that to touro desk…
Shipping on a similar external drive was quoted as $12.05 eParcel / $15.95 insured.