On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk
for
a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets
only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk
often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down.
I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive". They
are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2.
If you have a free expansion slot I'd install a (very cheap) USB 3
adapter.
There is a tremendous difference in speed compared to USB 2.
Data transfer to my (quite recent) external USB 3 drives is about 130
MB/s
(measured by iotop) which is faster than for my built in SATA 3 drives.
Helmut
