USB 3.0 - I'm impressed

[Froggy]

Just bought Western Digital portable hard disk 2T for Mac. I was hesitant to buy this because it does not have the Apple Thunderbolt connection unlike the Buffalo 1T that I am using now. Salesman told me that Thunderbolt is obviously faster than USB but the USB 3.0 is not very far from Thunderbolt while Thunderbolt cost a lot more due to the licensing of this technology by Apple. My 1T Buffalo portable disk with Thunderbolt cost like $270 and this new 2T WD portable disk with USB 3.0 is only $199.

I just tried it copying an 8G file olm format of my outlook backup it too about 1min and 15sec. Impressed.

Then I copied my iTunes folder which is 21.44G it took only slightly more than 4mins. Very impressed indeed.

Of course if I really want to compare with Thunderbolt I will need to do it when in Thailand however even at this speed I am very happy, beats the USB 2.0. Am a happy man now.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Happy like a toad.....or is it a frog?

 

[ThugSin]

will say " Get a mac. you wont look back."

 

[Froggy]

Happy like a toad.....or is it a frog?

Anything goes la bro as long as not 乌龟 its ok la

will say " Get a mac. you wont look back."

Yes this one I sure agree. Just starting up and shutting down a Windows platform will turn me off immediately. Never look back indeed.

 

[jw5]

Happy like a toad.....or is it a frog?

should be happy as a lark.................... :p

 

[Froggy]

should be happy as a lark.................... :p

kns always come up with difficult words make me have to check dicksionery

 

[laksaboy]

Why did you choose WD instead of Seagate or other brands?

Are WD hard disks reliable?

Also, have hard disk prices fallen since those price hikes following the floods in Thailand?

 

[jw5]

kns always come up with difficult words make me have to check dicksionery

okok, happy as a luck, happy now? :p

 

[Crane]

In my crude and lowly educated ways ..... I will say 'happy like fuck'

 

[Froggy]

Why did you choose WD instead of Seagate or other brands?

Are WD hard disks reliable?

Also, have hard disk prices fallen since those price hikes following the floods in Thailand?

First of all, I was looking for a 2T disk and I would have chosen a Buffalo cos it has Thuderbolt connection for the 1T that I already owned (but I am sure the 2T will be much more expensive) so since Buffalo 2T is not available I had to chose another brand.

Secondly I am very familiar with WD (Passport they call it) as I have a few of these they had been very reliable and I also like its curve design so I selected WD and anyway I could not find 2T for Mac from the other brands. Seagate do have 2T but for Windows (NTFS format la).

I've given the prices above.

 

[Froggy]

In my crude and lowly educated ways ..... I will say 'happy like fuck'

Crane I like your expression over jw5's, down to earth.

 

[jw5]

Crane I like your expression over jw5's, down to earth.

nabez, next time must try to be more crude..................

 

[Froggy]

nabez, next time must try to be more crude..................

But please don't follow tha uneducated fella always wagging his finger until I giddy

 

[jw5]

But please don't follow tha uneducated fella always wagging his finger until I giddy

Ya, that fellow is damn hopeless, beyond cure, I always hope he doesn't tekan me............:o

 

[Crane]

........ beyond cure............:o

Cure can be found in eating lots of greens and drinking lots of soursop juice

 

[jw5]

Cure can be found in eating lots of greens and drinking lots of soursop juice

Just bought a few cans of Yeo's soursop juice and Pokka's ice lemon tea...............

 

[ThugSin]

Just bought a few cans of Yeo's soursop juice and Pokka's ice lemon tea...............

 

[jw5]

Just bought a few cans of Yeo's soursop juice and Pokka's ice lemon tea...............

Forgot to mention that I like to drink these with bak kut teh and stir fried kai lan.

Paiseh to joetys for disturbing the thread, okok back to usb 3.0, impressive impressive............ :o

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

My asus mobo has that extra driver thing i think it's called uasp that makes it faster than normal usb 3.0

 

[johnny333]

First of all, I was looking for a 2T disk and I would have chosen a Buffalo cos it has Thuderbolt connection for the 1T that I already owned (but I am sure the 2T will be much more expensive) so since Buffalo 2T is not available I had to chose another brand.

Secondly I am very familiar with WD (Passport they call it) as I have a few of these they had been very reliable and I also like its curve design so I selected WD and anyway I could not find 2T for Mac from the other brands. Seagate do have 2T but for Windows (NTFS format la).

I've given the prices above.

I decided to go with the WD 1TB because all I needed was something to use to transfer between a Mac and Win 7 . The funny thing is that when transferring data from a win 7.0 machine to the WD can be very, very slow, even though the WD is formatted for Win i.e NTFS. However once the data is in the WD drive, copying it to a Mac is very much faster