My passport essential SE

[sarathsnair]

I am going to buy WD My passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 from Letsbuy
What is the transfer speed of this stuff ? On reading and writing ?
I came to know that usb 3 device can transer data upto 600MBps.. but the review of this hard disk shows that it has got only 70 MBps... how this happen ?????

 

[coderunknown]

^^ plug it into a usb 3.0 port to get better speed

 

[Krow]

600 Mbps (Mega bits per second).
70 MBps (Mega Bytes per second).

8 bits = 1 byte.

 

[sarathsnair]

but usb 3.0 support 5Gbps .. which is 600 MBps ??????????

 

[AJK]

My WD Elements 3.0 gives me about 70mbps speed and about 20mbps on 2.0 .

 

[dashing.sujay]

but usb 3.0 support 5Gbps .. which is 600 MBps ??????????

I know its true for a fact, but they are not real world speeds, rather just "acclaimed" speeds in a testing condition. So you won't get that much speed. I have the same drive and get speeds from 70-100MB/s.

 

[rajendran.bits]

It gives better performance than other HDD's available... Can if your copying 700 MB movies then it will copy a movie in 40-50 sec... with 2.0..