The packaging and product description is confusing and does not reflect the achievable under real circumstances facts. It is advertised with obvious 5GB / s interface speed USB3 and 10GB / s in 2 directions interface speed at Thunderbolt. That's all well and good - but the most important information, the information that is relevant in practice: in a nutshell: the only thing that is really important is not disclosed: That you will never reach these values by far with this product. That will indeed be touched far down in the small print - it but no, the above chart with the achsotollen USB & Thunderbolt looks at speeds respects.
When 1TB model a conventional hard disk is installed. No matter what speeds could be achieved depending on maximum with the interfaces USB3 and Thunderbolt: The disk is the bottleneck. And so are real values of 80-105 MB per second read and write to USB3 and Thunderboltverbindungen - tested on a iMac in 2012 and 2011 on a Macbook possible. This corresponds to the usual hard drive values and is much lower than permitted by the interfaces of USB3 or Thunderbolt.
The values themselves are tidy and for many users, the (usually 20-30 real MB / s, depending on the device) or Firewire 800 (50-70 real MB / sec) Change from USB2, the plate acts satisfactory or even surprising quickly. But they are far from the values that can be reached with the interfaces (theoretical: 640 MB / second at USB3 or 1,280 MB / second with Thunderbolt) away. This Buffalo 1TB disk provides a maximum of 105 MB / s: If you connect, for example, two with internal SSD equipped Macs together, are by Thunderbolt cable for over 200MB / s in read and write possible. All values are read using the OS X Activity Monitor.
Because of the enormous discrepancy between the real Values to be achieved to the maximum interface port rate and due to the exaggerated advertising on the product packaging with interface speeds, without mentioning the real achievable values really gets this record from me 4 of 5 stars.
