is it fast for a hdd
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The one I received did not work. I got results a different way. Bought it cheap. Didn't bother with a return.
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I am unable to use this item. In addition to this there are no user's instruction at all.
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Still faster. An SSD will almost always smoke an HDD, no matter what RPM speed, simply because there are no moving parts. The weakness is smaller capacity (1TB is HUGE for an SSD) and cost -- much more per GB, though coming down. This should be used in conjunction with a fast HDD. Typically, your operating system goes on the SSD, while your programs and data go on the HDD.
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Yes, as long as its a 3.5 inch drive with a SATA interface. If the drive has more speed than the USB 2 interface could deliver then you'll get more speed in this USB 3.0 enclosure, but if the drive was already at max speed, then you will not see any speed increase.
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No the HDD is a Seagate thin notebook Hybrid Drive that is a portion of the drive is Solid State which may improve performance on repetitive access be careful about the Brands of external Hard Drives you attach because some of the supplied software may cause the PC to respond very slowly
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Yes, but since its optimized for NAS, it will be somewhat slower than a desktop optimized drive.
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I am not sure what you are specifically asking but if you use a Solid State Drive for your primary C drive you can use conventional drives for storage. The C drive holds the os and programs so those are what count as far as speed. I am sold on the principle of solid state drives from a standpoint of speed gain alone. If you have a limited budget and want to see a speed increase replacing a conventional drive with one of these should please...
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SATA is backwards compatible so it should be fine. In fact, if you are replacing a plater drive it should be faster even with the 1.5 Gb/sec bottleneck.
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HDD 5400 rpm, but you can probably a SSD if you want. Either way the computer processing speed is great to begin with. Mine is very fast.
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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Well if you go RAID 0 you will have faster read/write speeds with regular hds or ssds. ssds are way faster, so theoretically a raid 0 ssd should be the fastest ever. Just be sure you motherboard or disc controller can do raid.
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yes it will however it will be pointless as you will not be able to utilize the speed of the drive. a standard HDD will do the Job for much less dollar I'm using this as the system drive and after few tweaks the speed is breathtaking windows 8 is booting less than 3 seconds. the drive is only 7mm thick while the 2.5 HDD is 9 mm in order to keep the drive fixed in it place you have to use a caddy in order to fix the drive in the enclosure if you are removing the HDD from the laptop then you can use the HDD caddy for this purpose.
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Absolutely! Solid state drive doesn't have moving parts like a traditional HDD. This allows much greater performance and greatly decreases risk of failure....
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Yes. They are no moving parts inside as you might know. It gets sightly warm but nothing like any HDD. If you wonder what type of external HDD to get, choose this kind: very fast speeds, reliable and nothing to break inside. The downside: it's price. As more people buy these kind of drives, the prices will trend lower.
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Yes! I use it to boot up all my laptops. It runs cooler than the internal drives and should last much longer. I'm still using a 500 gb I bought 6 years ago. Also, much more portable than a laptop.
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This drive is meant as a replacement for your old HD. It will speed up your computer like nothing you have ever seen before. It changed my 5 year old dual core into something as fast as a brand new one. I did update to windows 7 from XP at the same time.
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Another internal should generally be faster, as it's not hindered by USB speeds. But whatever burns put your main drive is likely to kill the secondary drive,too. The external is good for portability, but tend to have a shorter lifespan compared to a internal drive. ( That's why people say "mine has lasted over a whole year now". My current HDD is over 4 years old now.
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I'm sorry I do not know, nor can I find any reference to its speed. I use thunderbolt to run my drive and it sizzles.