Thanx Jim Bob, been after one for my laptop (which has a 5400 harddrive), ordered & heated
jordy32
15 Jan 171#2
I had one of the samsungs, thanks JimBobJr
Graham1979
15 Jan 171#3
3 year warranty but any used/know the quality of the brand? I am sure I've used their memory cards etc
richstroller to Graham1979
15 Jan 171#4
I have a 1tb portable hdd made by Transcend. No problems in the three years or so I've had it. It's currently hooked up to my router with films/music.
anscend quote 80,000 IOPS for both read and writes for the drive. Our review sample could get nowhere near that figure, producing a read figure of 71,121 IOPS, which is short of the official figure, although not too bad and likely related to different methodologies in testing procedures. The 4K random write IOPS performance however was a major disappointment as the drive could only manage a very disappointing 21,145 IOPS.
It was the same story with the real-life file transfer tests. The read performance of the drive was strong across all the tests, averaging 421MB/s. The only test where it dipped below 400MB/s was when dealing with the 50GB folder of small files. The write performance was a completely different story. All the file transfers started strongly and then the transfer rate dropped dramatically. We saw it happening using both the FastCopy utility and the standard Windows file copy – a peak and then a plunge worthy of any black day on the Footsie.
Transcend drives are never the easiest to find but nether the less we found the 480GB drive for sale for £98.22 inc VAT at Ballicom International HERE which is a pretty competitive price.
02wilben
15 Jan 17#8
Heat
puddles9999
16 Jan 17#9
My mac will be a happy bunny when playing battlefield 1
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It was the same story with the real-life file transfer tests. The read performance of the drive was strong across all the tests, averaging 421MB/s. The only test where it dipped below 400MB/s was when dealing with the 50GB folder of small files. The write performance was a completely different story. All the file transfers started strongly and then the transfer rate dropped dramatically. We saw it happening using both the FastCopy utility and the standard Windows file copy – a peak and then a plunge worthy of any black day on the Footsie.
Transcend drives are never the easiest to find but nether the less we found the 480GB drive for sale for £98.22 inc VAT at Ballicom International HERE which is a pretty competitive price.