The drive delivers speeds up to 130MB/s read, 25MB/s write for 16-32GB and 150MB/s read and 60MB/s write for 64-256GB. You can quickly transfer a 3GB HD movie clip in less than 1 minute, compared to the 4 minutes it takes using a standard USB 2.0 drive. And for added versatility, the drive is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 devices.
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The order of things has been upset by the latest Backblaze report. Nevertheless, I reckon people spend too much time worrying about brands and not enough about backups :-/
Thanks, this is interesting …
Do these have the Archive drives inside?
Inside the unit is a Seagate Archive HDD v2 ST8000AS0002 8TB 5900 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive.
I have four of these in a nas yet to have any die in one and a half years. Touch wood.
At this price, the drives would be SMR.
Is this better than those PNY ones that are hard to extend and retract the cover of?
Both are crap. Here is a very good 256GB flash drive (for much more - you get what you pay for): https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Flash-Voyager-256GB-Drive/dp/…
Based on reviews and benchmarks on Amazon, this one also seems ok: https://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-256GB-Premium-Flash/dp/B01E…
Another decent 256GB flash drive (based on benchmarks & anandtech review): https://www.amazon.com/Patriot-256GB-Supersonic-Flash-PEF256…
The first one I linked has very good performance, is basically an SSD on a flash drive, you can use it to run an OS from it even! Very good read/write, random read/write speeds, etc.
All the flash drives I've used are crap, they are so unreliable compared to a portable hard drive.
At 25 MB/s write, the 256GB Lexar JumpDrive S75 will take almost 3 hours to fill up!
64-256GB models should have 60MB/s write speed, so it will take less than an hour to fill the 256GB.
Friends, the current one is sold out. For $10 more a white MAC edition is available. Am I right in assuming there is in fact no difference besides colour and some pre-loaded software (so not affecting Windows users)?
But accepting back orders
Still in stock for me, right now.
Friend, I talk about the seagate. Worry not though.
Anyone know a good value USB 2.0 drive ~128gb?
Want it for storage plugged into my Asus AC68U router.
By the time USB drives got to 128GB, they stopped making USB 2.0 storage long before then.
If it's 128GB, it's almost certainly going to be USB 3.0.
Ooo… Thanks. No wonder I couldn't find anything. I thought I just wasn't looking hard enough. Thanks for your reply.
Actually I think Kingston made a USB 2.0 flash drive with 256GB capacity or was 512GB? Anyhows, it was crazy expensive at the time!
The seagate is good price per TB. My automatic response is to avoid/discount Seagate - not sure if it is even rational, based on some past experience, and others' comments. Are WD, Toshiba etc really more reliable? Any feedback appreciated.