Are Aftermarket HDD enclosures better?

[ChristianM01]

Hi, I have Seagate Back Up Plus Slim 2TB hard drive, I've enabled "better performnce" "enable write caching on this device", file transfer starts from 350-400MBps and drops to 120-130MBps or sometimes less in 3-4 seconds.

Do Ugreen or Orico or other HDD enclosures perform better than Seagate stock enclosure?

Thanks

 

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[Zando_]

120-130MB/s sounds like what you can expect out of a small HDD. It being faster at the start is likely just filling the cache, thus the drop to the actual speed of the drive afterwards. Get a fast SSD (slow SSDs will do the same thing, drop speed massively once they run out of cache) if you want higher sustained speeds. 

[Murasaki]

You're not limited by the enclosure, rather the HDD itself because its an HDD.

[ChristianM01]

5 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

120-130MB/s sounds like what you can expect out of a small HDD. It being faster at the start is likely just filling the cache, thus the drop to the actual speed of the drive afterwards. Get a fast SSD (slow SSDs will do the same thing, drop speed massively once they run out of cache) if you want higher sustained speeds. 

Thanks for reply. I know this is the expected speed of HDD but I wonder if Ugreen or Orico have little bit better speed maybe because they have better controller.

I have an SSD but I have my data on Seagate HDD. SSDs are risky to store data, if SSDs dies then it's very painful to recover data and there're some other factors to avoid storing data on SSDs. I read all that on internet.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, ChristianM01 said:

Thanks for reply. I know this is the expected speed of HDD but I wonder if Ugreen or Orico have little bit better speed maybe because they have better controller.

How would a better controller make it faster, if this is already the expected speed for this sort of drive? 

2 minutes ago, ChristianM01 said:

I have an SSD but I have my data on Seagate HDD. SSDs are risky to store data, if SSDs dies then it's very painful to recover data and there're some other factors to avoid storing data on SSDs. I read all that on internet.

Ideally you keep multiple copies, so the failure of one doesn't mean your data is gone. But realistically I don't do that either with my files, so I get wanting to stick to spinners as they're easier to recover. Best you can do is enterprise 3.5" HDDs, I believe those can do 220-260MB/s sustained (would need to check, they're tuned via firmware for different loads, NAS/Surveillance/Server use etc), that + a powered USB enclosure would be the fastest you could get an external drive to be without using a very expensive RAID enclosure or moving to SSD. 

[Murasaki]

3 minutes ago, ChristianM01 said:

Thanks for reply. I know this is the expected speed of HDD but I wonder if Ugreen or Orico have little bit better speed maybe because they have better controller.

I have an SSD but I have my data on Seagate HDD. SSDs are risky to store data, if SSDs dies then it's very painful to recover data and there're some other factors to avoid storing data on SSDs. I read all that on internet.

All storage mediums are "risky" as they have a timespan of operation before they inevitably degrade or stop working, applies to both HDDs and SSDs. This is why you always have backups at all times.

[ChristianM01]

6 minutes ago, Murasaki said:

All storage mediums are "risky" as they have a timespan of operation before they inevitably degrade or stop working, applies to both HDDs and SSDs. This is why you always have backups at all times.

I moved my data from SSD to Seagate after reading that. So I think different enclosures won't make any difference. Thanks guys for replies.

 

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[Murasaki]

6 minutes ago, ChristianM01 said:

I moved my data from SSD to Seagate after reading that. So I think different enclosures won't make any difference. Thanks guys for replies.

 

Is an SSD the better option than an HDD for backing up files (photos, audio, data)? The drive will only be used externally and will not be powered on or attached to a PC continuously. - Quora

 

Are HDD or SSD preferable as a backup drive? - Quora

Backups don't neccessarily need to be on external media. You can have backups on your computer's internal drives which get powered virtually every day. You could even store backups on cloud services if thats your thing. I have backups on an SSD but I refresh those backups often enough to not worry about data rotting. At the end of the day its up to you what you want to do.