Toshiba Offers 500GB Canvio Slim Portable Hard Drive

[exfileme]

Toshiba is now offering an external USB 3.0 HDD measuring just 9-mm thick.

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[Guest]

how does the usb 3 help me if its 5400 RPM? (really asking...)

 

[thecolorblue]

terrible terrible reporting.

5 gb/sec with a 5400 rpm hard drive????????????????????????????
this is supposed to be a tech literate site is it not?

 

[schizz69]

You can still do 60-70MB/s sequentially on a 5400 hdd, which will easily saturate a USB 2.0 interface.

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]thecolorblue[/nom]terrible terrible reporting.5 gb/sec with a 5400 rpm hard drive????????????????????????????this is supposed to be a tech literate site is it not?[/citation]

It's one of there normal copy and paste from manufactures specs and they've been doing this for long while. Don't beleive me? looks at any other USB 3.0 drive on here such as the seagate goflexs.


[citation][nom]bukbuki[/nom]how does the usb 3 help me if its 5400 RPM? (really asking...)[/citation]

Well, the max speed of 2.0 is 30MB/s. USB 3.0 allows the speed to be limited to the HDD. Case in point, I have a Seagate goflex free-agent 750GB from last year that has 3.0. Although i dont have a computer with 3.0 yet, I have taken it apart before and benched it directly with sata.

It's been while but if memory serves right from HD tune.

Max: 120MB/s (might of been a little lower but it was 100+ MB/s)
average: 100MB/s
Min:70-80MB/s

And thats just from 5400rpm 750GB hdd. Can you see the usage for usb 3 now.

 

[ELMO_2006]

There are other external drives on the market that are USB3.0 but the drive itself is 5400RPM.
I guess its another way of the manufacturers to keep pricing down - if there is such a thing.

i.e. WD my Book 3TB with USB3 is 5400RPM and retails for 139.99, I would assume that a black series drive would drive that price up to around 250.00