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.
Believe it or not, it all works fluidly in practice.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) Plus, it works in the other direction Facebook and Flickr albums can be backed up to your drive once you punch in your credentials. Failing that, it’ll redirect saves to Drive or Dropbox until you’re back at home. Here’s how it works: smartphones owners download a free Seagate app, which can transfer files over to the connected device assuming that the phone and the host computer are on the same Wi-Fi network. Yes, this is the storage equivalent of Inception. At long last, these backup suites are realizing that cloud storage is a real thing, and it effectively leverages your existing Dropbox and Google Drive accounts to store material that’s saved on your iOS or Android device. The true selling point of this drive is the company’s inbuilt backup program, Seagate Dashboard. It strips away practically everything except a USB 3.0 connector, but fancies itself up on the software front. The thought of carrying around 2TB of photos, videos, and love letters that you just can’t part with for under $120 would’ve been a pipe dream just a couple of years ago.Īs the latest race to the bottom plays out, Seagate’s 2TB Backup Plus Slim is a compelling option. In a world where SSDs are still (unfortunately) too pricey for most, mechanical hard drives are (mercifully) becoming increasingly affordable. In a nutshell, that describes Seagate’s latest duo of mobile hard drives.
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