Alright, so i get my self a new external hard disk a few minutes ago by Western Digital, a trusted brand by me since ancient days. It promises 'ultra-fast' data transfer and password protection. well I scrap that password protection part, not needed and it takes up space and performance anyway.
This is how the box looks like.
As uninformative as usual, filled with exaggerated marketing crap instead of useful information.
The hard disk, silver aluminum on top and black plastic on all sides and the back,
feels solid and the aluminum gives a good 'heat dissipation' impression.
Well a hard disk is still a hard disk, once you drop it, sayonara.
The first thing to do when I hook the hard disk to my comp, to get some factual information out of it!
As you can see, USB 3.0 does improve the performance of today's hard disk. With a peak of 96MBps and 72MBps average data transfer rate, this is rather fast for an external hard disk but no where near the advertised 'ultra-fast' speed. (note that USB2.0 max out at 60MBps thus the use of USB3.0 is justified)
Don't mind the access time, external hard disk are not designed to perform well in that area, if you want something portable that is lightning fast get a high speed USB flash drive instead.
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