Seems a fair price for a 1TB USB 3.0 portable.
Store description: The Toshiba Canvio® 3.0 Portable Hard Drive is bigger on the inside than the outside. The 1TB hard drive can store 285,000 images, 263,000 mp3s, or 820 movies - not bad for something so small. It uses a 3.0 USB interface, is portable and comes with a stylish design.
sorry noob question, what does it mean ?
rpm refers to revs per minute. In this case, it's slow. That's the minimum requirement, for a hard drive, to run current versions of Windows when it comes to reading and writing speeds. However it'll be good for media use and backing up data.
Woah we neg people for helping now?
Revs? Same thing I guess, just sounds funny.
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5200-5900RPM HDDs don't entail the misery that they used to.
More and more 5400RPM HDDs are starting to match or out-perform 7200RPM HDDs.
The only time you need to be concerned about spindle speed is when that HDD is going to be a boot partition or primary partition with applications on it.
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You're definitely not wrong but to call a 5400RPM HDD for an external drive a deal breaker is a stretch.
I guarantee you the last time an external HDD with a 7200RPM drive was posted on OB is probably early 2012 at the latest.
External HDDs have not been made with 7200RPM HDDs for a long time now. People who want 7200RPM HDDs in external enclosures need to buy a bare drive and an enclosure separately and that's not really comparable at this price point.
I didn't say it was a deal breaker; later in my post I recommended it for media and backing up data which is what external hard drives are commonly used for. I understand why they're not 7200rpm is to reduce power usage. Without this feature, it may need a power source making the drive immobile.
I seriously doubt anyone is cracking open a 2.5" external HDD to use internally (that's IF the USB interface isn't soldered onto the HDD like most 2.5" drives are now), so backing up data is about all you can do with these.
If you are going to keep it in the same case. Do you guys think it's going to perform reasonably well?
I know the seagate 7200 RPM drive only transfers at approximately 125MB/Sec.
Apparently 5400 RPM drive would only shave off 25MB/Sec or so.
http://www.buildcomputers.net/hard-disk-speed.html
The drive in the offer is USB 3.0
I would read the reviews on the officeworks site before buying this one.
It has been @ Office Works for this price for a long time. Surprised that this posted as a bargain.
Various reports on the web, suggesting this is a 5400rpm drive.