Toshiba Intros Canvio External Drive; SSD Upgrade Kit

[exfileme]

Toshiba has announced a new external drive and an SSD upgrade kit for desktops and laptops.

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[ojas]

featuring a 5700 RTM rotational speed

Everything's going RTM these days.

 

[thecolorblue]

"files can be transferred at 5 gb/sec"

but how quickly can they be written to the HD? is this site purely for advertising?

 

[drwho1]

As for Toshiba's new Solid State Drive (SSD) PC Upgrade Kit, shown above, it comes with all the tools needed to update the drives in any notebook and personal computer. The list of ingredients includes the drive itself, a USB 2.0 data migration cable and cloning software to easily assist with data transfer from existing drives to the new SSD, a SATA signal cable, a SATA power cable, a bracket and screws, a quick start guide, and a CD packed with the user's manual and the cloning software.

LOL
I want mine with Barbecue sauce!

 

[razor512]

only issue is most of those upgrade kits don't take into account partition alignment, they will transfer the OS to an SSD but will often never keep the partitions 4K aligned so you get some serious write amplification and reduced read and write performance because the drive must perform more internal IO's to perform simple actions.

 

[eddieroolz]

The comments are friggin' hilarious.