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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Tsutarja

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^ And that right there is why I would try it on a salvaged PC first before anything else :p

I have an old laptop from 2008 lying around in my room I could use haha

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Ugh, why is my USB 3.0 external HDD transferring at 27Mb/s? It's a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB model, if anyone's curious. Does Seagate provide USB 3.0 drivers, or is my cable perhaps messed up?

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Ugh, why is my USB 3.0 external HDD transferring at 27Mb/s? It's a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB model, if anyone's curious. Does Seagate provide USB 3.0 drivers, or is my cable perhaps messed up?
What cable are you using? (USB 3.0 cables should have the end connecting to the HDD have extra connectors.)

Also, although I've seen my external HDD achieving speeds in excess of 130 MB/s, that's for the best case performance - long sequential read of a single file at the beginning of the disk. How filled is the disk? What are you copying?

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What cable are you using? (USB 3.0 cables should have the end connecting to the HDD have extra connectors.)

Also, although I've seen my external HDD achieving speeds in excess of 130 MB/s, that's for the best case performance - long sequential read of a single file at the beginning of the disk. How filled is the disk? What are you copying?
I was copying a .vdi file over to my laptop from my desktop for VirtualBox.. and it's about half full as well. Attached is a picture of what the connectors look like.

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I was copying a .vdi file over to my laptop from my desktop for VirtualBox.. and it's about half full as well. Attached is a picture of what the connectors look like.
Looks odd. Try unplugging the HDD, and then plug it in again. Perform the same operation again - sometimes, a device might connect as USB 2.0 if the connection on the PC side detects the device before the five extra USB 3.0 pins make contact.

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Looks odd. Try unplugging the HDD, and then plug it in again. Perform the same operation again - sometimes, a device might connect as USB 2.0 if the connection on the PC side detects the device before the five extra USB 3.0 pins make contact.
I've tried doing that and still so far no luck :/

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I'd love to try other Linux distros. :3 Only ones I know atm are Ubuntu, Jolicloud, and Zorin. Zorin seems to be my favorite over Ubuntu, actually...but Ubuntu is like...eye candy. *__*

edit: OK HOW DID I GET TO THIS PAGE WOW.

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I tried out Ubuntu 13.10 and it's just pretty much full of bloatware at this point. I remember back when I first tried Ubuntu, it was version 8.04, and it didn't have all the bloatware like Amazon stuff when installed from stock, nor did it bother me at all about signing up for an ubuntu.com account.

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Elementary OS isn't a bad one to use either, as I've used it and it's relatively bloatware-free. How about CentOS though? Is that a good one to play around with? I enjoy working with the gnome environment for some odd reason, which is what CentOS is currently built off of.

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So I got a bunch of money for my birthday. Intel Core i3 @ 3.5 GHz is in the bag from my aunt, I have $160 saved from allowance (if my mother goes halves), and $70 I got from my father and stepmother in cash.

I'm thinking of blowing the allowance on the 120GB Samsung SSD I was wanting, and take the $70 and buy the case. The case is going take at least 1 2.5", 1 5.25", and 1 3.5", and has to have USB 3 connectors. What would you guys recommend I do?
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Elementary OS is definitely amazing. Their interface does look similar to OS X, yeah, but I see nothing wrong with that. In-fact, I personally find it to be a lot better-looking. d: Though, it would have been nice if they included a dark version of their theme. Arch Linux's a pretty good distro, too, but never managed to get it installed; for me, it was too confusing.

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So I got a bunch of money for my birthday. Intel Core i3 @ 3.5 GHz is in the bag from my aunt, I have $160 saved from allowance (if my mother goes halves), and $70 I got from my father and stepmother in cash.

I'm thinking of blowing the allowance on the 120GB Samsung SSD I was wanting, and take the $70 and buy the case. The case is going take at least 1 2.5", 1 5.25", and 1 3.5", and has to have USB 3 connectors. What would you guys recommend I do?
$160 for a 120 GB SSD = overpriced

Look for a better SSD deal, or get a SSHD. Or, heck, get a 32 GB SSD and a HDD of your choice and set them up for cache-based SSD use.

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Hmm, because I had a spare copy of it, I just decided to put Windows Vista to use in a VirtualBox VM out of pure boredem.. I assigned it 2 CPUs, 2048MB RAM (2GB), and 256MB VRAM. I know it's probably not going to be smooth, but it'll probably be smoother than the Vista VM on my desktop lol

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$160 for a 120 GB SSD = overpriced

Look for a better SSD deal, or get a SSHD. Or, heck, get a 32 GB SSD and a HDD of your choice and set them up for cache-based SSD use.
I'm not saying that I'm spending the whole $160 on it. And you trying to get me to use SSHDs over SSDs is like me trying to get you to use Firefox over IE. :P

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I'm not saying that I'm spending the whole $160 on it. And you trying to get me to use SSHDs over SSDs is like me trying to get you to use Firefox over IE. :P
"Blowing the allowance" does sound like you're spending the whole $160, so sorry about that.

Either way, an SSD is the way to go if you want speed at all costs. (If I were you, though, I'd rather see that your system also has some sort of HDD to go along with it. Try to figure out what's the best combination for you. Remember, even a 8 GB cache can do wonders to system responsiveness - I can only imagine how much it would be if it were 32 GB or higher.)

Check this out, by the way. SanDisk has a cache SSD that's about as plug-and-play as you can get.

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"Blowing the allowance" does sound like you're spending the whole $160, so sorry about that.

Either way, an SSD is the way to go if you want speed at all costs. (If I were you, though, I'd rather see that your system also has some sort of HDD to go along with it. Try to figure out what's the best combination for you. Remember, even a 8 GB cache can do wonders to system responsiveness - I can only imagine how much it would be if it were 32 GB or higher.)

Check this out, by the way. SanDisk has a cache SSD that's about as plug-and-play as you can get.
I'm likely going to get a 3TB external HDD for media storage, and leave my internal SSD for the system and program files.

Also, I was leaning towards an acutal SSD that was Samsung, not SanDisk.

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Sometimes I think I need an SSD for my desktop, but I'm not too sure if it'd be the bet thing for me to have. There have been times where my computer freezes up, but sometimes I blame the hard drive only because it freezes up for maybe a second or two, and that's it. However, the hard drive in my desktop is also only 2 and 3/4 years old.

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Hmm, the hard drive in my desktop is a Seagate model, and it's definitely past the 36-month survival period, since it's been in operation since July 2012 lol.. but it's also only 500GB, and not 1TB.

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I think you should give this a read for which harddrives you should consider buying: http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/01/21/what-hard-drive-should-i-buy/
In short, Seagate sucks. Thanks for posting this, as I was thinking of getting an external Seagate HDD. I think I'll stick with WD or Hitachi :D

I don't know if I shared this, but nonetheless I'll go ahead. Last Christmas I got a 1.5TB WD MyBook Essential HDD. After a few hours of owning it I stupidly dropped it on the floor and my guess is that the platters shattered. The problem I have with this is that I had a 320GB WD MyBook that I got in 2008, of which the drive well outlasted its casing and never once had drive failures of any sort (until I accidentally magnetized it). I lost count as to how many times I dropped it, and at one point I just peeled off the casing and put it on my desk.

It bothers me that some cheap plastic has better shock resistance than an important data medium that I spent $120 on for it to break within four hours of getting it in the mail.