Seagate has two capacities for the Indian market – 500GB priced at Rs 5,600 and 1TB priced at Rs 7,700. The drive logged 53MB/s read and 46MB/s write speed. We transferred an assortment of files amounting to 100MB. Real world file transfer speeds were close to synthetic speeds. SiSoft Sandra 2012 reported slightly less figures random read and write speeds were 54MB/s and 46MB/s respectively. CrystalDiskMark and ATTO Disk Benchmark reported sequential read and write speeds of 115MB/s and 114MB/s respectively, which is quite commendable. We put it through a bunch of synthetic and real world tests. We hooked up the 1TB Backup Plus to our Ivy Bridge rig powered by a Core i7-2600k processor, MSI B75MA-P45 motherboard and 8GB RAM. The user interface is pleasant and quite intuitive even for a first timer to get used to in a matter of a few minutes. The Autosave option when checked automatically, saves newly uploaded media. With the Save module, you can download photos and videos from Facebook and Flickr. You simply have to login to your account, choose the files you wish to upload, select the photoset and that’s about it. The Share module allows uploading photos and videos to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. So you have flexibility when it comes to interface, but that comes at a price. Seagate sells Thunderbolt and FireWire 800 add-on adapters for this drive as accessories. This is a separate block that comes off on pulling it out. If you notice closely, there’s a thin line that runs across the body towards the end where the USB 3.0 connector and activity LED are located. The sides are glossy and the bottom has matte finish. But it’s not so it’s actually plastic with brushed metal finish. If you take a quick glance at the drive, it may seem that the top of the shell is made of brushed aluminium. The 750GB drive comes only in black colour. However, colour options are only available in 500GB and 1TB capacities. Further, you have four colour options – black, red, blue and silver. I personally purchased three to make redundant backups when traveling.Seagate introduces 2TB Backup Plus Slim for Rs 10,500, and 4TB Backup Plus Fast for Rs 25,0: Seagate launches Ultra Slim 2TB external HDD along with premium LaCie external drivesĪs per Seagate’s website, the Backup Plus is available in 500GB, 750GB and 1TB capacities. Once full, the reading speed are acceptable and future file transfer won’t be negatively impacted. On the other hand, writing speed is not a critical factor when it comes to cold storage and backup. Nowadays, active editing files should be located on a SATA or NVMe SSD. With the advent of affordable SSD, old fashion spinning disks like this one have only one purpose: storing a large amount of data for little money. Of course the SMR technology tends to limit the writing speeds as the drive fills up but this product shouldn’t be used as a primary editing drive anyway. Not much has changed since 2016 and this new edition of the Seagate Backup Plus Portable drive is a good product. Writing speed drops significantly as the hard drive becomes full, especially on long sequential writesĬonclusion: A Great Value for Cold Storage and Backup Application.Good build quality with aluminum casing.Decent reading speed performance (130 MB/s maximum).Excellent value: $100 for a 5TB portable hard drive.When the hard drive is not full, the reading and writing operations can reach up to 130 MB/s. Past 70% or 80%, the writing speed can decrease below 30 MB/s. But this technology comes with a catch: while the reading speed is not impacted (up to 130 MB/s), the writing speed tends to slow down significantly as the disk becomes full. This overlapping-lane architecture permit to cram more data per platter. Without being too technical, the SMR technology consist of writing on three tracks in parallel. The Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) is a recording technology designed to increase the storage density. The hard drive is nicely designed and comes in several colors.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |