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On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk |
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> for |
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> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets |
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> only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk |
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> often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down. |
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> I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive". They |
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> are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. |
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If you have a free expansion slot I'd install a (very cheap) USB 3 |
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adapter. |
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There is a tremendous difference in speed compared to USB 2. |
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Data transfer to my (quite recent) external USB 3 drives is about 130 |
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MB/s |
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(measured by iotop) which is faster than for my built in SATA 3 drives. |
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Helmut |
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