So the first thing I noted on my device was that it had no power button. Because of this I knocked off 2 stars from portability. If you are looking for an off-line/cold backup disk it is kind of a pain to have to physically unplug the drive to shut it off.
For those of you interested in the speed of this drive I didn't run bench marks but instead decided to put it through real-world use case of backing up files.
I took an assortment of data ranging from pictures, documents audio files, isos etc and timed the transfer from a server running ZFS with 2 mirrored pairs (4 X 4TB NAS drives). This data was approximately 245GiB. It took 31M 54s to complete
Rough math breaks that down to approximately 7.7 GiB/minute or 127MiB/second
Next I took media files that were all over several hundred MiB. I transferred 8.5TB in 15.3 hours.
That is roughly 555GiB/hour or 9.25GiB/minute or 154MiB/second
I thought this was impressive that over 15 hours the drive did not suffer any speed slow down on the big files.
From the hardware, the case is ok, but it lacks any active cooling and the case itself feels like plastic. That means it does not do a fantastic job of dissipating the heat. As I do not plan on using this drive constantly, but rather as a drive that goes in a fireproof safe, this is acceptable.
NOTE: the command 'blockdev --getbsz /dev/sdd' which gets the physical block sizes of the drive reported 512 bytes. I'm shocked at this as I thought most modern drives had moved to at least 4096.
Overall this drive performs well for the price and will serve its purpose
| Standing screen display size | 0.1 Inches |
|---|---|
| RAM | DDR4 |
| Hard Drive | 10 TB External Hard Drive |
| Chipset brand | Intel |
| Card description | Integrated |
| Brand | Seagate |
| Series | Expansion |
| Item model number | STEB10000400 |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Operating System | Windows |
| Product Dimensions | 17.6 x 12.07 x 3.66 cm; 952.54 Grams |
| Item dimensions L x W x H | 17.6 x 12.1 x 3.7 centimeters |
| Color | Black |
| Processor Brand | Intel |
| Number of Processors | 1 |
| Hard Disk Interface | Solid State |
| Optical Storage Device Type | No Optical Drive |
| Voltage | 100240 Volts |
