But then there were first a long face. Although you could hear the usual USB noise, but it seemed a new hard drive in the system. Oh great, somewhere had to be a mistake, either in the board or in my external enclosure. I once bought me some time ago a cord to secure the data from my old laptop hard drives, which also has a SATA data / power connector was included, so that also tried to ensure that the hard disk was not even on.
Well the problem is actually obvious and a few years ago I would be there immediately come of its own accord it, the disk was not formatted. One notices that Windows has outgrown its infancy, to Windows 95 times I have 3 times a week formatted my hard drives. a: \ format c: is now indeed no longer common, so what do.
For all are once faced the same problem here the Quick Start Guide, at least for Windows 7, Windows 8 is likely to function similarly:
You go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management and follow the instructions of the program, select Connect from the empty partition, click with the right plan, selects the top item and formatted the disk. Then it is easily recognized by Windows. This must be the way also do when incorporating the hard disk as normal. Who is able to install a hard drive itself (which is not really complicated) but should also know, however, vlt. takes this guide one or the other, the fear of it. One should really know that you are doing and make sure that you definitely the proper formatted disk, if need be rather ask someone who knows about it, however.
With me everything has worked wonderfully, I then installed the hard drive into an external case and it is recognized by Windows 7 wonderfully by USB 3.0.
The hard disk fulfilled its promise really excellent, it is in operation absolutely whisper quiet. You can hear when you activate a soft start-up sound, that's it. You have to almost put his ear to the panel to hear something, regardless of whether she is inactive, or the read / write access. That's really great, especially compared to my old 1TB Seagate external HDD.
Of the promised 1.000GB can be used effectively 931,51GB how the always is with hard drives so because 1 MB are not just 1000KB, 1024KB but ,. I wonder why one does not finally adjusts times, but I've been 24 years use PC and also build almost as long even hard drives, and it was always like that.
The data throughput via USB 3.0 are very good. Reading 154,73MB / sec and writing still 108,71MB / sec. That means you can move or copy that I find rather quickly a large 1GB file within 10 seconds on the plate!
- By comparison, my built-in Intel SSD hard drive with 100GB although comes at 248.69 MB / sec writing but also just to 99,22MB / sec.
- My Seagate external hard drive that has only USB 2.0 comes just at 31.86 MB / sec and 25,03MB / sec while writing - that's a real difference, of course, but is primarily due to the USB 3.0 interface but I would definitely not bring external USB 2.0 hard drive more, the speed differences are just too crass.
As a benchmark program AS SSD Benchmark was used different benchmark programs produced similar results.
But so be it. Intern so far I could not test the board, but as helps to look at the other reviews, even here it seems to do a very good job.
Ultimately, for most people so primarily two points important in the hard drive department: The price and volume. In both, the WD Digital Green absolute points and is therefore a clear recommendation on my part, which is true also in sister HDD WD Digital Green, for the same applies as for this board here, so the reviews same in many parts, so do not surprised;) There are VLT. for techies some differences in details between the Green and Blue that are important, but just looking at people like me, a good, large, quiet, inexpensive hard disk, you can not go wrong both during the WD Digital Green and Blue.
In this hard drive then you are doing the same thing even for his green conscience. It was produced especially sustained by the manufacturer, and I wonder why this is not the case by default is in such hard drives. The WD Digital Blue for example has similar features and is even more expensive! Although I really wonder where there are differences in detail.
I hope the review was reasonably informative. She does not claim to be an all-encompassing technical review on the capabilities of the hard drive. But I know myself too little, and there are already more than enough reviews here. It is rather simple even a review, on an alternative Nuztungsweise, and I ask you to consider them as such :)
