Are the read/write speeds faster than a 5400 RPM Hard Drive?
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On the 128 gb model? Heck no. I would expect the lower capacity models to perform better though.
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The spec sheet doesn't say, but almost certainly 5400 RPM. Max. data xfer over USB3 is 5GB/sec. There's a 2.5" external Hitachi at 7200 RPM but it appears to only have 750GB capacity.
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I tried a hybrid drive and it gave me similar performance to a SSD, 10 to 25% in initial load, no diference in between game load time and not much difference in start time. Basically not really worth it. The difference is like 36 sec vs 40 or 55 vs 102 sec.
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It appears that the Writing speed is about 5.60 MByte/s and the reading Speed is about 7.37 MByte/s. This is based on some of the tests I was able to run on my PNY Attache III 16 GB USB 2.0.
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My apologies for not get back to you sooner . I don't know about how fast the RPM's are on this drive. I think it would be based on thee fact of the speed transfer rate. I looked up info for the drive including the BUFFALO website but i did not find anything. Is a fast drive, good luck
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Given that there are conflicting answers to this question on Amazon, and I really wanted to know before purchasing a drive, I contacted Seagate. Here's their response: " Unfortunately, part of the information is not provided at all. The RPM of our Expansion drives are not a provided specification, meaning the unit can run from 5400 RPMs to 7200 RPMs. We have no way to know which is it. It is not a guaranteed specification." So, it's a crap shoot. And it matters.
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Using Disk Speed Test my results are as follows: 109 Write and 106 Read on a Mac partitioned to HSF+. Hope this helps.
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The short answer is no. Your speed will most definitely be limited by the slow 5400rpm disk. It will not take full advantage of the Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 bandwidth. I'll be getting a Thunderbolt drive with SSD.
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This particular drive is USB2. You'll get about 16 megabytes per second write, 20 to 30 read, depending on file size, fragmentation, etc.
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I use the portable device all the time on 7200 RPM 2.5" drives. It works just fine for reading and duplicating drives at those speeds without issues for me. I can't answer to anything faster like 10K drives since I don't have any of those just yet. Don't have any 5400 RPM drives either. I recommend this product - easy to use.
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It is quite fast. I never ran any benchmark tests but it is considerably faster than USB2.0. Just make sure you have USB3 ports in your computer. In case you only have USB2 ports, the drive still works but with USB2 speeds only.
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My Windows Experience rating FOR THE DISK DRIVES went from 5.7 to 7.9 after installing this drive. That's the maximum. I also did a speed comparison test between the (spinning-type) HDD that came on my Dell 8700 and this SSD. The SSD reads or writes sequentially, 13 times faster than the HDD; the SSD reads or writes randomly, 375 times faster than the HDD (that's not a typo).
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Reads @ 19.5 Mb/s. Have not performed write test. Mostly use it for RasPi OS. Works well enough for that. Hope this helps.
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Mine had a 200 gb 5400 rpm but I replaced it with a 1 tb 7200 for a great performance upgrade! R Smith
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5400 rpm- a weak point for this laptop. However, since this laptop supports up to two 2.5" drives, I recommend getting a decent solid state drive to use as the primary drive and delegate this 1TB drive to storage only.
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Ok I look around and talk with some Sony technicians all they said was to get 5400 or 7200 rpm as long as it is SATA2/ SATA 3.0GB/s
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Hello, 2.5 "SATA2 5400RPM drive with tried. USB2.0 30-35 MB / s transfer speed provided by. USB3.0 at 60-65 mb / s provided. Such good enough for an apparatus.