
Seagate Expansion Portable
4 To
Seagate Expansion Portable
4 To
Pros: cheap.
Cons:
- Write speed drops down from ~60MB/s to ~13MB/s after copying large amount of data (~100GB) on both Win 10 and Linux. Some reports say it might be due to the overheating.
- It also looks like the drive came with misaligned partitions, as my OS has reported: "Partition does not start on physical sector boundary". Unfortunately, re-partitioning didn't help to fix the speed issue.
I've purchased WD Elements of the same size, and it doesn't have any of the above issues.
That's probably due to the shingled technology used in the 4 and 5TB unit. See here for explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
You should reformat every disk and usb stick to your needs an you os. You should not count on the partition that came with the drive.
Hi SergRemote
Question:
How fast ist your WD Elements reading and writing (for comparions)?
Do you have a link to the product?