This is useless for a reliable backup device (unless you like trusting the USB controller chip). I put it into a Plugable USB3-SATA-UASP1 and the drive shows up as three partitions and is unreadable in Win 7. I confirmed this by removing the internal drive. You can't read it with anything be another Seagate controller. Say due to a power glitch, you loose your data. So if you loose the cheapo USB controller chip, or it screws up translation, Putting it into a desktop or hooking it to a USB to Sata converter or a docking Using a disk data recovery program to get some of the data off the drive by With a standard gpt or mbr formatted drive, you would have some hope of maybe Read them because they have a secret format that only the controller chip knows. Windows will see theĭrive as an unformatted partition and two unallocated partition. If you have a failure of the cheap controller chip, you might think you canĬrack the case open and put the drive on a sata dock or put it internal to aĭesktop PC and recover the files. The Controller in this device presents the OS as such. XP can read drives larger than 2TB if they are formatted as 4K Traditionally drives under the 2.2TB limit use 512 byte USB controller in this drive fakes the OS into thinking it is an NTFS drive
Pros: Inexpensive 4TB drive compatible with XP thru Win 8.1.Ĭons: There is a little secret you should know. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 for additional system compatibility.Īdditional Information Date First Available Take advantage of the fast data transfer speeds with the USB 3.0 interface by connecting to a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port. Saving files is easy too-just drag-and-drop. It is automatically recognized by the Windows operating system, so there is no software to install and nothing to configure. Setup is straightforward simply plug in the included power supply and USB cable, and you are ready to go. Instantly add space for more files, consolidate all of your files to a single location, or free up space on your computer's internal drive to help improve performance.
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