![]() That explains why the platter capacity has stagnated at 1TB since, well, September 2015. As it stands, the big players do not seem to have any intention of investing R&D in smaller platters to go in the drives equipped by the Backup Plus Slim. Should Seagate have swapped the LM0007 for the LMZ15, a newer, potentially faster hard drive? Maybe – but then there’s very little incentive to do so. That’s great if you have any inclination towards the creative side of computing, but not so great if you only want quality storage on the cheap (the drive comes with a two-year warranty, by the way). The drive comes with the brand new Mylio photo management software and a two-month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, but no storage applications like, say, the WD My Passport Ultra range. It was cool to the touch during use, and barely audible. The Backup Plus Slim scored between 141 and 144MBps on reads and around 137MBps on write speeds, while a 10GB file was transferred at 128MBps. It is a slightly-better-than-average performer as shown in our CrystalDiskMark and Atto benchmarks. Surprisingly, though, that drive costs more on its own than when packaged as the Backup Plus Slim. This product uses the old ST2000LM007 drive, as we mentioned, a disk which has two 1TB platters spinning at 5,400 RPM with 128MB cache. ![]() However, if local storage is the only thing you’re looking for, I would suggest you to look elsewhere as you might get a similar capacity external hard drive at a cheaper price.Here’s how the Seagate Backup Plus Slim performed in our benchmark tests:ĬrystalDiskMark: 141MBps (read) 137MBps (write)Ītto: 144MBps (read, 256mb) 137MBps (write, 256mb) If you’re planning to keep a backup of your data on social networking sites, this drive will make your life a lot easier. To wrap this up, the software is the only differentiator. The software is really easy to use and allows to share content to social networks via the connected external hard drive, internal HDD or Seagate’s cloud service. The software supports Facebook, Flickr and YouTube social networks, which are admittedly the biggest ones but would’ve been better if Seagate added support for other social networking sites as well. This Seagate hard drive comes pre-loaded with Seagate Dashboard software and is essentially the only way to take advantage of the drive’s social networking features. Now that we’ve talked about the hardware performance, let’s talk about the software. FireWire 800 and Thunderbolt adapters can be bought separately. However, if you feel USB 3.0 is ‘slow’ for your work, you can easily swap the USB 3.0 with a better and faster FireWire 800 and Thunderbolt support. On the performance front, the drive supports USB 3.0 out of the box that gives a read/write speed of around 110MB/s and 107MB/s respectively. ![]() Seagate’s Backup Plus Desktop also needs to be powered up via an external source and comes with the requisite AC adapter. One of the major differences between is a portable and a desktop drive is the power source – a portable one can be powered by a USB port whereas you’ll need an external power source to power the desktop drive. The bottom side of the drive is detachable that supports different interfaces. ![]() The Backup Plus Desktop drive starts from 1TB storage and is available in four different SKUs up to 4TB.ĭesign-wise, the Seagate Backup Plus Desktop HDD features a glossy finish that attracts a decent amount of fingerprint smudges and vents placed on the side for dissipating heat from the drive. The portable Backup Plus drives max out at 1TB and this is where the Backup Plus Desktop drive steps in with more storage. Now we’re taking Seagate’s desktop offering for a spin that promises the same Backup Plus advantages with a humongous local storage of 3TB. We also reviewed the portable 1TB Backup Plus drive in September last year and found it a decent offering if you considered your social network data ‘save-worthy’. Seagate introduced the Backup Plus lineup last year that allowed users to backup content from and upload to their favourite social networks.
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