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Originally Posted by VK79
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From a quick search, most of these budget drives run about 2.5-4 mB/s when filled up. Even with your numbers (8mB/s) it still would struggle when streaming a 9+mB/s file.
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I find it hard to believe that any modern hard drive made in the last few years would transfer at 2.5-4MB/s. Take a look at a few benchmarks that I have done below on a 2 year old Samsung drive (7200rpm/32MB cache/1TB) and this particular 2TB drive in question. (5400rpm/32MB cache/2TB) These easily crank out on average close to 100MB/s and even at their slowest (most likely on the inner tracks of the disk) can push 30MB/s. I'm going to guess that there's another factor causing the streaming to lag. (I'm guessing someone is trying to stream over wireless and that's where the bottleneck is)
I actually just bought 4 of these on the Newegg
US deal (got them for $59.99 each with free shipping).
Pretty decent drives and (surprisingly) faster read/write rates than my Samsung F1 that spins at 7200rpm. It's likely due to the higher density platters used in the F4's.
