Search for a long time after a hard disk with min. 3 TB. Dissuasive was always the high price, due to the floods in the producing countries. When I discovered the Seagate STBV3000200 at Amazon, I could hardly believe, 3 TB for 139 euros my eyes. I found on the internet, no sample, opinions or reviews. Was there somewhere a hook? I dared to buy. Now I'm sitting here and I'm thrilled. That is the disc hardly hear is just a pleasant side effect. At the full transmission speed of course you can become intoxicated with the used USB 3.0. USB 2.0 I have not even tried. Who has no USB 3.0 built into the PC can be retrofitted, provided one has on its motherboard a free PCIe slot. I have the BIGtec USB 3.0 High Speed Interface Card Adapter PCI ExpressCard SuperSpeed 2 Port PCIe card card card NEC chipset USB 2.0 1.1 backward compatible XP, Vista, Win7 installed, which by the way easily to create for any layman. Board and card harmonize together super. The teoretischen achievable values are as so often only theory. In practice, in terms of my system the plate 3 times as fast in writing as the senior external SATA drives. A 2.7 GB large video file will be constantly transferred with about 100 MB / s. The copying process is thus completed in approximately 30 seconds. Even a complete disk backup with Acronis True Image has shrunk from 3 hours to 1 hour. For some without backup software only downer is the most every several missing software to secure its data. On the plate is merely a link to Seagate to very easy to register his new record.
A few more notes: Drive can not be operated vertically. Although there is no warning, but a suitable base is not included. So come on to an attempt or a call at Seagate. There is no on-off switch. Mir is it lawful plate is difficult to achieve under the desk. Power management drives the plate down when you turn the PC's. USB 3.0 connection cable is included. Plate, although backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, for connecting one nevertheless necessarily requires a USB 3.0 cable. Those who like to go abroad, for there is still a power plug adapter here. Nice idea for the Traveler. I'll stay with the board, including in any case at home.
