I have used this hard drive quite a times and I am quite impressed with the speed of the hard drive. Its speed for transferring the data is very good.Its importtant thing is that it is quite handy and light weight so thats why it is easy to carry at anywhere. I am getting speed of about 40 to 60 Mbps in 2.0 port that is quite good and in 3.0 port I will get the speeds of 100 to 120 Mbps speed which is excellent speed. It is very solid hard drive. It can take upto small damages . So I hope you understand and take right decision.