Tag: USB 3.0

A Look at Seagate’s FreeAgent GoFlex 4TB External Disk Drive & Western Digital’s USB 3.0 PCIe Card in a MicroServer

A Look at Seagate’s FreeAgent GoFlex 4TB External Disk Drive & Western Digital’s USB 3.0 PCIe Card in a MicroServer

By: John Stutsman I’m always looking at hard drives and ways that I can expand my storage capacity to better organize my systems and backups of those systems. The following is not strictly a review of the FreeAgent GoFlex 4TB or the WD USB 3.0 PCIe Card but more of a chronology of how well [...]

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WD 3.0TB Drive $164.99

WD 3.0TB Drive $164.99

Newegg.com has the WD MyBook external 3TB drive on sale for a limited time.  It’s a single drive with USB 3.0 and 2.0 and is priced cheaper than what you can purchase the drive for by itself as an internal drive.  Although, it doesn’t come with the RAID/Adapter card. Check the reviews on it.  Some [...]

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Is USB 3.0 worth it?

Is USB 3.0 worth it?

As WHS users we are always looking for different ways to upgrade our storage capabilities fairly cheaply and without giving up too much performance.  Since the introduction of USB 3.0 with advertised “theoretical” speeds of 625 Megs/sec, I have been eager to see what the real world performance would be and if that would translate [...]

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