Does it copy at normal or high speed?
1399208
Don't buy it. It's a piece of junk! The buttons began breaking and the software was out of date. Hope this helps.
1399209
I never got to this point of experimentation. If I recall it broke down before completing the 2nd tape. So there was no chance to test whatever capability it claimed. It had great potential but only if it worked, poor design, poor manufacturing, is as cheaply made as they knew how. High speed recording requires a much more sophisticated and much better built machine. Not in this price range, I don't think. I went back to an old "Boombox" I had with its cassette player still in tact. I hope it stays healthy till I finish digitizing. I hope you found this to be of help. PS: I used to design piezo-electric phono-cartridges back in the days. So, I have some aptitude. Good luck. I never got to this point of experimentation. If I recall it broke down before completing the 2nd tape. So there was no chance to test whatever capability it claimed. It had great potential but only if it worked, poor design, poor manufacturing, is as cheaply made as they knew how. High speed recording requires a much more sophisticated and much better built machine. Not in this price range, I don't think. I went back to an old "Boombox" I had with its cassette player still in tact. I hope it stays healthy till I finish digitizing. I hope you found this to be of help. PS: I used... » Read More I never got to this point of experimentation. If I recall it broke down before completing the 2nd tape. So there was no chance to test whatever capability it claimed. It had great potential but only if it worked, poor design, poor manufacturing, is as cheaply made as they knew how. High speed recording requires a much more sophisticated and much better built machine. Not in this price range, I don't think. I went back to an old "Boombox" I had with its cassette player still in tact. I hope it stays healthy till I finish digitizing. I hope you found this to be of help. PS: I used to design piezo-electric phono-cartridges back in the days. So, I have some aptitude. Good luck. « Show Less
1399210
It copies at both speeds - it was figuring how to create a CD after copying that is the challenge.
1399211
Sorry, I meant "speed". Also, it IS a great little converter. They used to be huge and expensive!
1568460
They don't publish what speed it is. They source different hard drive manufacturers. More than likely it is 7200 to meet the specs. From the various reviews from professionals, it meets their published specs. The transfer rates are very good. I liked mine.
1846662
I have not copied dvds yet..but cds are MUCH faster. I would assume the same would apply for dvds.
354991
I don't use my that often and I don't leave it connected, just when I want to copy or move items. I haven't had any problems with my.
1449745
I haven't really paid any attention. It seems fast enough; of course, faster is always better. I use it to create and store backup disk images of PCs. I'm happy with the unit and am just happy that I don't have to manually make 2nd copies of things.
2260413
It is not specified in any information included with the drive , nor anything I see on-line at WDC.com. Probably a 5,400 RPM drive but it doesn't really matter. The drive is intended for backing up data not for high performance data access. The slowest link will determine the transfer speed so the USB controller on your computer will be a limiter. It took me over 5 1/2 hours to copy 622 GB to this unit. It held close to a 30 MB/sec rate on a USB 2 port. About the same results for a Firewire 800 connection I have used on other tests on other (faster drives). My suggestion is ... don't worry about the RPMs. If you need backup space this will work well.
643067
Over USB 3.0, it's reasonably fast. If you're doing a lot of post-processing work at a time on very large RAW files, you might be better served with a Thunderbolt external drive or even a Thunderbolt RAID0 (fastest but not redundant) or RAID10 (fast & redundant) system, and then using the Drobo as a backup device. Batch processing would also be faster on those. Just as an additional note: while I really love Drobo's simplicity when it comes to swapping new drives to expand storage, don't rely on it as your only copy of your data. I had an original Drobo Gen 1 that I used for almost five years as an external storage and backup device before it began to reboot randomly. Luckily I was able to retrieve most of the data on my Drobo before it stopped working entirely, but what I didn't may still be locked up on those drives - or not - I still haven't found a way to get to the data due to their non-standard RAID setup. Having said that - backups, especially offsite, are ALWAYS a good idea, no matter where you store the primary copies of your files.
814108
The rear bay and/or "highest-numbered bay" (#2 on the 2-bay unit, and #4 on the 4-bay unit) is normally the SOURCE (the one you copy "from"). The lower-numbered bays are usually the TARGET (Destination) drive bays. Read the writing on the devices, it is small, but it does list which is which. Double-check before using, because models change from time to time! Copy speed is acceptable, as far as I can tell. 500 GB drive, mostly-full, copied in less than 4 hours - I cannot give specifics, because it was finished when I came back 4 hours later.
2075681
Yes. Ad long as you have a good copying program. I would suggest burning at a slow speed. I usually write at 2.5.
1585189
Hi,I did bought two models but I don't think that makes copies. It just scan.
1734022
I would like to know also as sometimes when I record over 1 hour and 17 minutes it will not copy it do a cd; if smaller it will. So I have learned to stop at that point and start new recording if you want to transfer to a cd.
644619
Hi, it is Giga Bits Per Second - the rate of data transfer - data made of Audio n Video. Higher means better but may not have effect if the source has low data to send. Hope this helps.
576907
Pretty fast IF the printer is on and ready. I don't use my printer a lot so I leave it off most of the time. When it's on, I am impressed with the speed of the copies.
11071
I'm really not for sure what you are referring to, but I know it copies quickly and they have always played just fine after they have been copied. I love it!
211692
I dont remember read/write speeds, but it is fast. This is msata; there isnt room for an adapter internal. Adapter would work external while cloning.
1457258
It just copies what ever you have on the disk, no editing or saving data. I only use it for making copies of my kids stuff, dvd's. I have not used it for music or data yet. My understanding it should copy what ever is on the main disk. Works great for me so far, saves alot of time.
1762477
I have been running mine with a Western Digital WD30EFRX NAS 3tb just fine for a few months now. Runs quick and hasn't presented any strange playback issues or lag, it has actually decreased load times but probably due to NAS spec. Though, weird behavior with file transfer, when I copied over the old 1tb drive in my Micca to the new 3tb, it somehow ballooned my files by about 200gb. Hidden files show nothing and quite a few folders read different in size between the two drives. Not sure if files are being decompressed on the copy over or something, no ZIPs just ghost data that has taken decent bite out of the drive, I don't think there is a 200gb reserve or system partition on a 3tb...