I watched the status bar move along during much of the transfer: The highest speed I saw was 41.2 MB/s, though most of the time it averaged around 36.3 MB/s as pictured above.Ĭopying files back to my laptop’s hard drive was about the same, maxing out at 39.1 MB/s and averaging around 38.8 MB/s: There was another time where I moved a few files at the freakishly-fast speed of 179.3 MB/s, but that was a one-time occurrence I haven’t been able to replicate. In this case, Hard Disk Sentinel reports the drive is a Toshiba DT01ACA300 - so, if you’re all worried about putting your data on a hard drive that has no reputation, you can now rest easy.Īnyway, I decided to be an ultra-paranoid nerd and format the drive to verify the integrity of each and every sector before moving my precious data onto it.įrom there, I went for one of the biggest folders on my hard drive: a collection of raw files from my camcorder. Well, if it makes any difference, it appears they’re the guys who made the pretty case that holds the hard drive - not the hard drive itself. I bought this hard drive today at the German retailer “Saturn,” on sale for 99 Euros - not a bad price for a 3 TB, USB 3 external hard drive with a 2-year warranty.īeing unfamiliar with most European brands, I decided to Google “intenso hard drive review” and basically found a bunch of forum threads with people asking, “who the heck are Intenso?” I’m thinking there must be some kind of proprietary file system going on, which would explain the slow performance. Unfortunately, I needed the data on the drive at the time, so I didn’t try deleting/re-creating the volume. It seemed, though I had taken the time to completely format the drive after I bought it, that it was not in fact a typical NTFS drive, and couldn’t be used in any way other than being plugged into the enclosure’s circuit board. Last summer, I tried taking it apart and putting the hard drive directly into my system to see if I could get it to perform better. However, when it comes to backing up lots of small files (like a website, for example), the process of moving, copying and deleting files is unbelievably slow.

Overall data transfer speed is OK, if you’re only using it to move large files. This is the slowest, crappiest external hard drive I’ve ever had.

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