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External Hard Drive Seagate Backup Plus 1TB Review

External hard drives have outlived barely few technological modifications since their first appearance in the market. Their main destination is to store voluminous customer files or the whole system image, and provide an unimpeded access to them. In spite of the products distinct purpose and set of assignments, each manufacturer tries to replenish their drives with bright and unusual accessories and facilities. Seagate, being the company with an established reputation in this sector, does not lag behind the tendencies, and offers its consumers a range of additional options. Therefore, Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB drive distinguishes by the possibility to save photos from social networks (Facebook and Flickr), along with standard facilities.

Design

Seagate Backup Plus resembles other similar products in design and can be characterized as classically strict. It has got a rectangular casing and 123x81x14.5 mm dimensions. The casing in made of plastic, however its shock-resistance properties are not proved. The connection of Thunderbolt adapter perceptibly thickens the depth of casing; this makes this portable external hard drive look a stationary storage solution. On the other hand, the involvement of such dock station serves the differentiating feature of Backup Plus.

Backup

Seagate Backup Plus is compatible with Windows and OS X platforms. The work with additional backup functions is realized via a dedicated Seagate Dashboard 2.0 program. Backup process can be accomplished automatically (on Windows platform) due to the available backup activation options. The customer just needs to set the schedule and the backup process will be done within predetermined periods of time. Nevertheless, OS X platform offers the customer to send media files to the above mentioned social networks, or quite the contrary, download the files from them to the HDD. This is supposed to be a major privilege of this hard drive, since the user can save all photo and video files from the social networks directly at the hard drive.

Thunderbolt Speed

This model of external hard drive is capable to connect with the PC via USB 2.0, USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt interfaces. The user will find USB 3.0 cable in the nominal delivery kit by default, while the connection of Thunderbolt is fulfilled through a particular dock-station. The user can decide (depending on the needs) whether to use the available USB 3.0 interface or acquire Thunderbolt.

Speed tests have been accomplished with the help of a model which accommodated 2.5 inch hard drive of 1 TB volume capacity. Spindle rotation speed equaled to 5400 rpm. Hence, the data transfer speed via USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt interfaces was a bit limited, as far as the model proved to show average performance characteristics. Models with better performance and higher spindle rotation speed are able to unveil all facilities of the interfaces under considerations.

To continue, Seagate Packup Plus showed dissimilar results of writing and reading speed when connected via different interfaces.

USB 2.0 interface: maximal writing speed equals to 23.3 Mb/sec, reading speed – 32.9 Mb/sec;
USB 3.0 interface: maximal writing speed equals to 104.7 Mb/sec, reading speed – 104.3 Mb/sec.
Thunderbolt interface: maximal writing speed equals to 104.9 Mb/sec, reading speed – 103.4 Mb/sec.

Such results witness of practically identical writing and reading showings with USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt interfaces. Those are the maximal performance showings which the integrated hard drive is able to demonstrate. However, interfaces themselves are capable to show more efficient writing and reading index.
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  • 09 August 2012, 17:54
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