Review on TEAMGROUP PD1000 Waterproof Shockproof T8FED6001T0C108 by Sameer Hilton

After extensive testing on Linux, the stated speed is no exaggeration. It's good. It's also small and cheap, which is nice. However. He kept breaking up with me. At first it seemed like it was just a bad USB connection or cable, but then I realized it happens *anytime* I touch it. Even when I'm lying perfectly still on the table, a slight flick of my finger across the top of the table turns it off, and it always will. In other words, the outer metal case is electrically connected to the insides, and any external static (like the one that surrounds us all constantly) will cause it to goof up internally. Maybe if I cover the whole outer part with some kind of plastic or rubber glue it could fix the situation. Or maybe I can hack it and try running a paper isolator somewhere if I can figure out where the connection is. -- edit -- This is worse than I thought. The drive can only maintain full speed for about 30 seconds before overheating. Avoid. - another edit. To describe the behavior of this drive in more detail, it will support high read speeds. But the initially very high writing speed soon drops to around 10 MB. The disk controller also incorrectly reports its ability to receive TRIM commands, which Windows still simply ignores and periodically issues TRIM, but Linux does not. The hard drive can receive the TRIM command, but does not inform the operating system of this ability. So you need to pretend Linux as if the disk has this capability (I need to "sudo su" and "echo "unmap" >/sys/block/sdd/device/scsi_disk/*/provisioning_mode" in my Linux mint). You can then run the fstrim command manually. What it needs on Linux, because without it its performance degrades even more over time.