Does this rugged Lacie external SSD drive run cooler than the regular Lacie HDD rugged external drives?
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I have not had any overheating issues. Sometimes the thunderbolt cable gets warm, though.
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I can't speak to how this compares to a regular Lacie spindle external drive or otherwise but can say that when doing a lot of read/writes it does get quite a bit warm. Nothing to hamper it's operation to date but noteworthy.
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Absolutely! Solid state drive doesn't have moving parts like a traditional HDD. This allows much greater performance and greatly decreases risk of failure....
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I don't know how hot the external rugged drives with traditional disk drives run, but these SSD drives don't get very hot. I have two of them, they get warmish if you are really pushing a lot of data in/out, but never hot. Pretty cool if left idle.
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I use this drive as my BootCamp (Win8.1) on a new Mac Pro. I keep it up in a wire trough under my desk. I have been through the wiring a few times, and have not noticed this drive to be warm. I think the moving drives generate more heat than the SSDs.
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Yes. They are no moving parts inside as you might know. It gets sightly warm but nothing like any HDD. If you wonder what type of external HDD to get, choose this kind: very fast speeds, reliable and nothing to break inside. The downside: it's price. As more people buy these kind of drives, the prices will trend lower.
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My drives stay circa 20-25F above ambient. The description notes 3 X 3.5 inch drives.
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Yes, but since its optimized for NAS, it will be somewhat slower than a desktop optimized drive.
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Another internal should generally be faster, as it's not hindered by USB speeds. But whatever burns put your main drive is likely to kill the secondary drive,too. The external is good for portability, but tend to have a shorter lifespan compared to a internal drive. ( That's why people say "mine has lasted over a whole year now". My current HDD is over 4 years old now.
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I am not a very tech savvy person but I put a lot of stress on this hard drive and I rarely ever notice any speeds slower than working on my computer itself (I own a fairly new Imac) and work solely off of this drive handling and editing thousands upon thousands of photos at a time. With that said, the hard drive is very fast and can handle a whole lot of work at a time. Very durable shell and firewire ports! I would recommend this over the Lacie hard drives without a doubt. I can't say the same for the new WD non-firewire hard drives though. Overall its a very fast drive and very durable for a great price! I am not a very tech savvy person but I put a lot of stress on this hard drive and I rarely ever notice any speeds slower than working on my computer itself (I own a fairly new Imac) and work solely off of this drive handling and editing thousands upon thousands of photos at a time. With that said, the hard drive is very fast and can handle a whole lot of work at a time. Very durable shell and firewire ports! I would recommend this over the Lacie hard drives without a doubt. I can't say the same for the new WD non-firewire hard drives though. Overall its a very fast drive and very durable... » Read More I am not a very tech savvy person but I put a lot of stress on this hard drive and I rarely ever notice any speeds slower than working on my computer itself (I own a fairly new Imac) and work solely off of this drive handling and editing thousands upon thousands of photos at a time. With that said, the hard drive is very fast and can handle a whole lot of work at a time. Very durable shell and firewire ports! I would recommend this over the Lacie hard drives without a doubt. I can't say the same for the new WD non-firewire hard drives though. Overall its a very fast drive and very durable for a great price! « Show Less
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I always wonder that too with LaCie drives. Most likely 5400 RPM. They don't like to disclose this spec for some reason, but I recall seeing it elsewhere, or asking CS directly. It's for this reason, along with noise, I have not bought a LaCie and use G-Drive's instead.
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Doesn't matter both have similar specs. I have these and WD black drives in my system, I run them both in raid 0 and both arrays perform about the same.
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I put a Samsung 840evo 500GB SSD in this enclosure. Large files (>500mb) transferred at an average of 166MB/s on a USB3.0 port with ONE leg of the Y connector connected.
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I've only had this HD drive for a short while so my comments are limited by that experience. I have not felt any heat build up while transferring large files for long periods of time. I can't specifically address the issue of keeping this HD plugged in all the time, but like any HD, it's only active when called upon. I think it's a great cost value when balancing the 500GB capacity and the ease of use with my MacBook Pro.
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I don't know, because right now I only have one 3.5" drive installed. But. The fan in front of this bay adapter blows outside air directly on the drives, I don't see how drives could be mounted in any cooler manner than this enclosure, since in the usual way drives are mounted in a tower, there is no direct air for them at all, they are cooled only by convection with the air inside the box.
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I've purchased 3 of these with all them being coupled with a 7200 HD and I've not had any problems. Boot time and data-intensive programs (e.g., mapping software) are significantly faster with this SSD. The only problem is prioritizing what data to put on the SSD and what to store on the HD.
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No the HDD is a Seagate thin notebook Hybrid Drive that is a portion of the drive is Solid State which may improve performance on repetitive access be careful about the Brands of external Hard Drives you attach because some of the supplied software may cause the PC to respond very slowly
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I would recommend using one on Thecus's compatibility list: http://www.thecus.com/download/compatibility/hdd/N4520SERIES_N2800_N4800_N4800Eco_N5550_N4510U_N7510_HDD_SSD_list.pdf Also consider that Enterprise rated drives will last longer and potentially perform a bit faster, but might not be worth the price bump for just backups.
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Advantages you have a lot of space, cons none that I know of, the external drive does not change anything
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External drives are better in quality and durability. I have both and prefer the external.
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External? If you mean esata or USB than no. As for an internal sata SSD, M.2's may cost more and could be suseptable to heat in poorly cooled cases. Depending on your motherboard, using the M.2 interface may disable from one to four sata ports and thus may limit the number of drives that can be installed. Check the motherboard's manual if you're concerned.Used as the boot debice, they're blazingly fast.
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I own the 1 TB model and also noticed the heat buildup. I keep my unit off unless I'm backing up data. Had it a year and so far, so good.