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Seagate Desktop, 8 TB, External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac and Two-year Rescue Services (STGY8000400), Black

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The only case with hard drives where the USB standard matters much is if you connect a drive to an old-style, low-bandwidth USB 2.0 port, which is better reserved for items like keyboards and mice. (Also, if it's a portable drive, that USB 2.0 port may not supply sufficient power to run the drive in the first place, so the speed shortfall may be moot.) Any remotely recent computer will have some faster USB 3-class ports, though. Still, while external SSDs are cheaper than they were a few years ago (see the best we've tested at the preceding link), they're far from a complete replacement for spinning drives. Larger external drives designed to stay on your desk or in a server closet still almost exclusively use spinning-drive mechanisms, taking advantage of platter drives' much higher capacities and much lower prices compared with SSDs. Western Digital is one of the most trusted names in data storage, and trust is vital for a device that will hold so much of your valuable memories, media, and information. WD’s My Book external hard drive comes in an 8TB size and includes all the reliability, performance, and convenience you could want in a personal storage solution. Being a hard drive, small file and seek performance (17 to 25 milliseconds) is slow–abysmal by SSD standards. That’s the nature of the beast. IDG A desktop hard drive with a single platter-based mechanism inside, or a portable hard drive, is far more likely to make use of plain old USB instead. Almost every recent drive we have reviewed supports USB, and the same goes for laptops and desktops. USB ports are ubiquitous, and many external drives now come with cables with both rectangular USB Type-A connectors and oval-shaped USB Type-C ones to enable adapter-free connections to PCs that have only one type. If the drive includes only a single cable, you may need an adapter, depending on your computer's available USB ports. Be mindful of that.

Nadat u in System Information/System Profiler (Systeeminformatie/Systeemprofiel) bent, gaat u als volgt te werk: Houd de Option-toets ingedrukt en klik daarna op het Apple-menu; de eerste vermelding is normaal System Information/System Profiler (Systeeminformatie/Systeemprofiel). Als u About this Mac (Over deze Mac) ziet, drukt u opnieuw op de Option-toets en houdt u deze ingedrukt.Als u een onbekend apparaat of ander apparaat ziet, klik dan met de rechtermuisknop op het apparaat en selecteer Eigenschappen. Klik met de rechtermuisknop op het apparaat met het probleem en selecteer Installatie ongedaan maken. If you buy a larger desktop drive with two or more discrete spinning-platter drive mechanisms inside, you'll almost certainly have the option to configure the drive as a RAID array using included software. Depending on which RAID level you choose, you can prioritize capacity, speed, or data redundancy, or some combination thereof. Open Finder > Applications (Toepassingen) > Utilities (Hulpprogramma's) > Disk Utility (Schijfhulpprogramma).

The 2022 iteration of the LaCie Mobile Drive is a good choice for anyone who values capacity over speed, and who appreciates a rare touch of elegance in a platter-based hard drive. It costs a tad more per gigabyte than much of its platter-based ilk, but less than SSDs of equivalent capacity.You'll only see the speed benefits of Thunderbolt, however, if you have a drive that's SSD-based, or a multi-drive, platter-based desktop DAS that is set up in a RAID array. For ordinary external hard drives, Thunderbolt is very much the exception, not the rule. It tends to show up mainly in products geared toward the Mac market. Start opnieuw op in Safe Mode (Veilige modus) en ga na of de schijf in die modus wordt gedetecteerd. Als de schijf wordt gedetecteerd, start dan opnieuw op in de normale modus en controleer of de schijf nu wel wordt gedetecteerd. Capaciteit - Controleer of de schijfcapaciteit juist is. Als u bijvoorbeeld een schijf van 1 TB hebt, is de weergegeven capaciteit normaal 931 GB.

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