Big storage questions.

[Beeeyeee]

What is the average speed of a 5200, and 7200 RPM HDD?

compared to a low speed SSD like the Kingston ones?

and what is the fastest SSD that will benefit from USB 3.0/3.1?

what is the best (and smallest) USBSSD that will work with USB 3.0/3.1?

and finally, is there a way to basiclaly partition a USB 3.0 drive to work as both one (or multiple) windows installation drive(s) (4gb) and a regular file storage drive?

 

[Beeeyeee]

as an example for the USB drive. I currently use this USB 2.0 PNY flash drive and its AMAZING. I love the size, I keep in on my keychain in my back pocket all the time and it's never caused me any troubles. http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Micro-Attache-P-FDI32G-APPMT2-GE/dp/B00JFOFIYU/ref=sr_1_7?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1439753786&sr=1-7&keywords=pny+flash+drive

[Mug]

I feel like this is research you could and should be doing yourself rather than asking a forum... But I appreciate some people are lazy.

 

• My 7200RPM Seagate drive usually writes at 120MB/s and my old laptop's drive wrote at 70MB/s but they can be much, much slower.
• By "low speed" you probably mean the older ones which are still at least twice the sequential speed of a hard drive and at least four times faster at loading your OS than HDDs due to random writes.
• I have no idea what you mean, but USB 3.0 is something that's noticeable even on HDDs
• Amazon will help you there
• You can shrink and adjust partitins on Disk Management (PC) ar Disk Utility (Mac)

[Beeeyeee]

 

I feel like this is research you could and should be doing yourself rather than asking a forum... But I appreciate some people are lazy.

 

• My 7200RPM Seagate drive usually writes at 120MB/s and my old laptop's drive wrote at 70MB/s but they can be much, much slower.
• By "low speed" you probably mean the older ones which are still at least twice the sequential speed of a hard drive and at least four times faster at loading your OS than HDDs due to random writes.
• I have no idea what you mean, but USB 3.0 is something that's noticeable even on HDDs
• Amazon will help you there
• You can shrink and adjust partitins on Disk Management (PC) ar Disk Utility (Mac)

 

haha yeah just questions that have been lingering and after a few quick google searches, I got lazy. so thank you very much sir:) and thanks for the suggestions! i'll be less lazy now and look into it more.

[Captain_WD]

What is the average speed of a 5200, and 7200 RPM HDD?

compared to a low speed SSD like the Kingston ones?

and what is the fastest SSD that will benefit from USB 3.0/3.1?

what is the best (and smallest) USBSSD that will work with USB 3.0/3.1?

and finally, is there a way to basiclaly partition a USB 3.0 drive to work as both one (or multiple) windows installation drive(s) (4gb) and a regular file storage drive?

 

Hey there Beeeyeee,

 

The speed of different drives are pretty much dependent on each drive's specifications. Generally drives work at about 150MB/s sequential read/write speeds. SSDs generally work much faster at around 500MB/s. The speeds that USB3.0 and USB3.1 allow are 5Gb/s (625MB/s) and 10Gb/s (1.25GB/s) respectively. You can use a regular internal SSD in an external enclosure and use it as an external drive. 

Speeds generally depend on many things including the size, number and types of files as well as the overall hardware type of the whole computer. 

 

Captain_WD.