Buy BUFFALO DriveStation DDR 2 TB Ultra Fast USB 3.0 Hard Drive with DDR3 RAM Cache - HD-GD2.0U3BUFFALO DriveStation DDR 2 TB Ultra Fast USB 3.0 Hard Drive with DDR3 RAM Cache - HD-GD2.0U3 Product Description:
- MegaCache Accelerator
- Ultra fast transfer speeds, comparable to SSD
- Utilizes 1 GB of DRAM cache
- Easy use Desktop Storage
- Unique form fits anywhere
- Buffalo Tools
- Compatible with Mac and PC
- Easy scheduled back up
Product Description
Buffalo's DriveStation DDR is an easy to use, high performance USB 3.0 desktop hard drive that offers ultra fast transfer speeds, comparable to SSD. Combining the high capacity of an HDD with 1 GB of DRAM cache, DriveStation DDR provides SSD-like performance. With blazing fast transfer speeds up to 408 MB/s, it is up to 3x faster than USB 3.0 and 10x faster than USB 2.0. Perfect for any PC or Mac, it's backward compatible with USB 2.0, and its unique chassis design can stand upright or lay flat for placement just about anywhere. It ships complete with Buffalo Tools, a feature-rich software suite designed to enhance computer performance and the day-to-day digital life of Windows PC consumers; boost performance, conserve energy and battery consumption and perform PC backups. DriveStation DDR is the perfect solution for easily expanding storage or backing up your computer with ultra fast file transfers.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
You need speed?? Get this drive....
By Quentin Gerlach
I just want to make something clear right now -- this drive reads and writes incredibly fast, IF you use it correctly. That means you need to have it connected to a USB3 port, and you need to keep the caching feature in the software on. As long as you keep those requirements in mind - this drive is amazing.The secret to this drive is that it has a 1 GB cache of DDR3 memory, which allows the drive to write/read at ridiculous speeds. Used in conjunction with an SSD in my computer, I've gotten sustained speeds of roughly 200 MBps - read and write. As far as I've researched, that is the fastest a drive has hit yet.The Buffalo software that's on the drive is pretty much unnecessary - again, unless you plan on turning off the cache ability, which you shouldn't - the software is really superfluous. You could use SecureLock to encrypt the drive - I find it's a little slow. I use BitLocker - works fine. You can also use any of the various 3rd party encryption tools out there...Just a couple of concerns -- one, there's only one drive in here. So if you're paranoid about losing data, you may want another backup. Another thing is that there's no easy way to switch out the drive. This is like the pie in the sky for me - it would be nice if external drive makers made this easier to do - especially if the drive does fail. The third thing you'll need to be careful of -- since the drive temporarily writes to a DDR cache, if the drive loses power while data is in the cache, it's gone. Period. Had a power outage when I was copying data (thank goodness I was just copying), and there appears to be no temp power supply in the drive to allow the data that's in the cache to finish copying to the actual HDD. So it disappeared. Keep this in mind - I fixed it with plugging the drive into a UPS.Besides that, this thing is a beast, and honestly, it's competitively priced with other drives of similar space, so I see no reason to look any farther for a external HDD.
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