Has anyone seen any reviews of the Seagate 3TB drive in its various forms? USB3, eSata, Thunderbolt, and internal.
I just bought one of these drives in its external form. Firstly, it comes strangely formatted. It is pre-formatted with MBR and at 3TB - which is odd because it should require GPT and most reviews I've seen mention that something fancy is going on within the external cage's hardware to make this happen. IMHO - sounds like something that might affect performance.
But considering this drive's price in its sata3 6gb/s external form, I'm considering purchasing a second, partitioning it, and getting rid of my old 2TB and 1TB internal drives.
My question is - what would the performance difference of this drive be between USB3 external, internally on a SATA III 6gb/s connection and internally on a SATA II 3gb/s connection?
The problem is I only have two sata3 ports, one of which is occupied by a sata3 SSD, so if I put both drives internally (my preference), one of them would have to go on a sata2 port.
For a quick look, I'm currently transferring a 1.3TB set of randomly-sized files from a Seagate 2TB 5900rpm on sata2 to this drive on USB3 external and I'm getting around 55mb/s according to Win7.
I just bought one of these drives in its external form. Firstly, it comes strangely formatted. It is pre-formatted with MBR and at 3TB - which is odd because it should require GPT and most reviews I've seen mention that something fancy is going on within the external cage's hardware to make this happen. IMHO - sounds like something that might affect performance.
But considering this drive's price in its sata3 6gb/s external form, I'm considering purchasing a second, partitioning it, and getting rid of my old 2TB and 1TB internal drives.
My question is - what would the performance difference of this drive be between USB3 external, internally on a SATA III 6gb/s connection and internally on a SATA II 3gb/s connection?
The problem is I only have two sata3 ports, one of which is occupied by a sata3 SSD, so if I put both drives internally (my preference), one of them would have to go on a sata2 port.
For a quick look, I'm currently transferring a 1.3TB set of randomly-sized files from a Seagate 2TB 5900rpm on sata2 to this drive on USB3 external and I'm getting around 55mb/s according to Win7.