From my brief research, this likely contains Seagate Barracuda ST8000DM004, an SMR drive. Yuck. Not even at this price unfortunately for me. Maybe if your use case doesn't mind SMR drives.
is this a desktop hard drive? does it draw power directly from a power outlet? or does it draw power from the PSU via USB? what's the difference between an external hard drive vs a GAMING HUB external hard drive anyway?
I purchased this the last time it was listed here. In the beginning, it worked well. Now it is slow to do anything. It takes a while to start up when I try to retrieve a file. When I attempt to save a file, its almost as if windows freezes when trying to write to the drive.
is this a desktop hard drive? does it draw power directly from a power outlet? or does it draw power from the PSU via USB? what's the difference between an external hard drive vs a GAMING HUB external hard drive anyway?
It comes with a separate adaptor. Compare to a regular external HDD, this one comes with a usb hub and it also has RGB light.
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People were saying it is an SMR drive inside, but I have 150 MB/s while copying files into it,
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People were saying it is an SMR drive inside, but I have 150 MB/s while copying files into it,
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Seagate FireCuda HUB 8 TB ( brand new )
on a USB 3.0 port
32 KB
Randon write 7.71
Random Read 1.60
Seq Write 3.19
Seq Read 52.79
16 KB
Randon write 2.25
Random Read 0.74
Seq Write 5.78
Seq Read 41.22
8 KB
Randon write 3.73
Random Read 0.29
Seq Write 3.20
Seq Read 36.83
4 KB
Randon write 0.17
Random Read 0.51
Seq Write 2.23
Seq Read 49.26
numbers are in MB/S
Western Digital MyBook 3 TB ( 10 years old )
on an eSATA port
32 KB
Randon write 5.40
Random Read 2.71
Seq Write 54.61
Seq Read 72.38
16 KB
Randon write 2.72
Random Read 1.37
Seq Write 49.30
Seq Read 61.82
8 KB
Randon write 1.35
Random Read 0.65
Seq Write 37.14
Seq Read 42.93
4 KB
Randon write 0.69
Random Read 0.34
Seq Write 21.93
Seq Read 24.76
Western Digital MyBook 3 TB ( 10 years old )
on USB 2.0 port
32 KB
Randon write 5.38
Random Read 2.69
Seq Write 30.20
Seq Read 30.17
16 KB
Randon write 2.83
Random Read 1.33
Seq Write 24.86
Seq Read 27.74
8 KB
Randon write 1.37
Random Read 0.69
Seq Write 21.91
Seq Read 24.49
4 KB
Randon write 0.70
Random Read 0.35
Seq Write 17.30
Seq Read 17.81