spaceelf Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 http://www.anandtech.com/show/9701/the-seagate-game-drive-for-xbox-do-you-need-a-green-drive Short version: Faster than My Passport X (my personal benchmarks put that at 116MB/sec) President Devil 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showan Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 Seagate isn't what it once was...How long will this drive last is the real question that should be asked... Nogib and oldtimefighter 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
President Devil Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) This is just a rebadged Seagate Portable drive, LOL. Haven't ever had problems with the Samsung Spinpoint drives inside though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted October 9, 2015 Veteran Share Posted October 9, 2015 Seagate isn't what it once was...How long will this drive last is the real question that should be asked... these mfg's keep going back and forth in quality... in the 90's I hated WD drives, they were loud, slow and failed fast at least for me... and Seagate seemed to be better then... now it seems like every portable Seagate drive I have fails within a year or starts having bad block reallocation problems... (although had two WD green drives do the same thing this past year) but I've been buying WD Red drives for all my SAN / NAS drives... no problems yet.. Showan and Mikeparkie 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compl3x Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 these mfg's keep going back and forth in quality... in the 90's I hated WD drives, they were loud, slow and failed fast at least for me... and Seagate seemed to be better then... now it seems like every portable Seagate drive I have fails within a year or starts having bad block reallocation problems... (although had two WD green drives do the same thing this past year) but I've been buying WD Red drives for all my SAN / NAS drives... no problems yet.. I've been really lucky with HDDs. Some toshiba drive I ripped out of my PS3 and hooked up to my TV as a live T.V./DVR is still chugging along. I've got Seagate and WD drives in various devices/systems. Optical drives on the other hand... I refuse to put ODD in any of my systems now. Too many bad experiences. If you are gaming on a console is benchmarking really a priority? I'm not being all master-racy here but did anyone think this drive was going to be particularly fast? It should operate in the parameters of a HDD unpowered by an AC adaptor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted October 10, 2015 Author Share Posted October 10, 2015 (edited) If you are gaming on a console is benchmarking really a priority? I'm not being all master-racy here but did anyone think this drive was going to be particularly fast? It should operate in the parameters of a HDD unpowered by an AC adaptor. USB3 is capable of delivering a lot of power, so that's not much of an issue. And I know with Destiny at least I've seen some loading hitches lessen with a better drive. I was mainly interested because I already have a Passport X...which works better than my external drive on my computer, but has a rather annoying LED. I could see upgrading it eventually. Perhaps not to this though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showan Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 USB3 is capable of delivering a lot of power, so that's not much of an issue. And I know with Destiny at least I've seen some loading hitches lessen with a better drive. I was mainly interested because I already have a Passport X...which works better than my external drive on my computer, but has a rather annoying LED. I could see upgrading it eventually. Perhaps not to this though. black electrical tape is your friend... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted October 14, 2015 Author Share Posted October 14, 2015 black electrical tape is your friend... :-) I worry about the heat distribution with things like that. Would rather not harm performance or fry something just because it was annoying. I can usually hide it anyway, so whatever works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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