Verbatim 2TB External Hard Drive Benchmark

image is very small :(

its usb 2 so the max it will copy is around 30mbs, depending on the files etc.
 
14 hours to do 250 GB :wtf:

Doesn't seem right.

I bought a Samsung G3 1TB @ IC this weekend and it took about 4 hours to do a 360GB backup from TimeMachine.
 
Hmm .. I got that same drive a while ago after having both a Verbatim 750GB & 1.5TB for a while and my feeling is that it's generally slower than the previous drives.

It also has this irritating thing where the copy progress will show 100% but I still have to wait, sometimes minutes, before the actual copy finishes. I have a quick i7/8gb spec PC now so it could be caching & I'm generally storing much larger files than before, so not saying it's the drive's fault.

Main use is backups anyway so not a problem for me, just saying that (without actual testing) the feeling is that the 2TB is slower than my older Verbatim drives.
 
It's a USB 2.0 drive so on a sunny day you'll get an average of about 29MB/sec. Your benchmark image shows an average write rate of 29MB/s which is spot on for USB 2.0.
You were expecting faster speeds? The limit is not the drive, it's the USB 2.0 interface. Your benchmark proves it can write 29MB/s average so it's not a hardware issue. Perhaps try another application to backup/copy with. I don't see how you can return it, the hardware seems to be working fine.
 
What sort of files are you copying? If it is very small files, it will take insanely long... If it is large files like movies, you should see the transfer speeds in the test.

If you are using ubuntu and formatted the drive NTFS, it will be 100 times worse.
 
How easy is it to open that enclosure without invalidating the warranty?

I would take the drive out and connect it directly to the PC or put the drive in a eSATA or USB3 enclosure.
That's what I did with my WD as USB2 is painfully slow.
 
Those Verbatim cases have a small, black circular sticker on the back that splits in half when you open the case. It's a really easy case to open, but you'll tear the warranty sticker.
 
South_Bit said:
Those Verbatim cases have a small, black circular sticker on the back that splits in half when you open the case. It's a really easy case to open, but you'll tear the warranty sticker.
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Is there no way to safely remove the sticker before opening the case?

I've done this with a lot of things saving the sticker should I need it.
 
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