Verbatim SuperSpeed 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 97415 (Black)
Verbatim SuperSpeed 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive 97415 (Black)
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List Price: $ 135.99
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- Capacity: 2 TB
- SuperSpeed USB 3.0 increases transfer speed up to 10x faster than USB 2.0
- Backwardly compatible with USB 2.0 ports
- Includes Nero BackItUp software
- Backed by a 7-year limited warranty
This external hard drive features Nero BackItUp Essentials software that allows full system backup and restore functions, the ability to schedule automatic backup by date/time and an encrypted backup option with password control. Save your precious photos, videos, graphics, music, data and more in ultimate safety with Verbatim.
List Price:$ 135.99
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about 10 months ago
OK hardware, faulty instructions,
The instructions included with this unit are in two parts. First, they explain fairly well how to install the USB 3.0 card in your computer. This is not a job some people will feel comfortable doing, but is not difficult. Second, they explain the simple task of connecting power to the hard drive and connecting it to the new USB 3.0 card. I had no trouble at all following these directions. But the unit did not work. Windows 7 informed me that it found a new USB device, but needed a driver. I did try plugging the new drive into a USB 2.0 port and found the drive worked. But the idea was to get rapid file transfers with the new USB 3.0 card, so there was no point in using the new drive on a slow port.
I asked Verbatim for help and got an email saying to look on the card for a maker’s website and then download the driver. The card had no maker’s name, but I did find a model number (PU3020). Google took the number and led me to the maker’s (Good Way Technology in China) website. They said the card would be shipped with a CD containing the driver. But they also had a driver available to download, along with a manual that revealed that the card was called an NEC (not Good Way) USB device. I was able to run the driver and get the card to work, in turn allowing the new drive to work.
Once I had the new drive running, I found the drive was preloaded by Verbatim with a folder called NEC that contained the driver for the USB card. The original instructions lead the owner to a chicken or egg situation. The card won’t work because the driver is not installed. The drive won’t work because it is plugged into the card. The instructions never mention that you need to load the driver or where to find it. So I think the installation instructions should have said to connect the new Verbatim drive to an existing USB 2.0 port and install the NEC USB 3.0 card driver before plugging the drive into the USB 3.0 card port. It would have been very quick and simple, saving lots of wasted time.
So now the drive is working fine, though I have no way to tell whether it is really ten times faster than if it was on a USB 2.0 port. So maybe it is a five star product, but the instructions certainly merit deducting at least one star.
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|about 10 months ago
Excellent, but tricks to installation,
All in all this is an excellent package at a very attractive price.
The USB 3.0 interface truly can provide much faster transfers. A 510 GB system backup took a little over three hours, as compared with six for a similar Verbatim disc via USB 2.0. It would make less difference in some other cases where speed is dominated by disc seek times, however.
My experience with the high-end Verbatim discs suggests they are pretty well bulletproof — which cannot be said of many other brands. I don’t expect this one to be any different.
The included Renesas 2-port USB PCIe card appears to work well, but takes some care in installation and may need some extra cables to interface with your system. First, of course, you need an open PCIe slot. But this is a high-power device that needs external power from your power supply, like a disc or optical drive. The power connector is a four-pin Molex, and unless your system is pretty old it is not likely that you have Molex cabling. The card comes with an adapter that will convert from a SATA power connector to Molex, so as long as you have an open SATA power cable you are OK. If not, you need to get a splitter. In my case, the open SATA cable was too far from the PCIe slot and so I needed to get an extension. Molex connectors are interference fit so count on high seating forces — and it really does need to be fully seated.
Before you can use the disc as a USB 3.0 device you need to install the card. But before you can use the card you need to install the driver — and that comes on the disc. So you have to connect the disc as a USB 2.0 device, install the driver, shut down the system, install the card, and then reconnect the disc via the USB 3.0.
For some reason the disc comes formatted for FAT 32, a completely impractical format for so large a disc. So you need to reformat it as NTFS. This is easy and quick, but you wipe out the card driver and the included Verbatim backup software in the process, so you may want to copy them to someplace else first.
The included USB 3.0 cable is very short, so you need to get a longer one if you want to locate the disc any distance from the computer.
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