Review on 💾 Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive - Silver USB 3.0 for PC, Laptop, and Mac | Includes 1 Year Mylio Create Subscription and 2 Months Adobe CC Photography | Model: STHN2000401 by Gavin Dunne

The Seagate Backup Plus Slim Hard Drive offers plenty of storage space in a small package with typical backup performance. But while it would be tempting to use such a small drive for portable or everyday use, the technology choices Seagate has made make these 2TB drives best suited for: an external drive for everyday use); or as an archive drive to store a permanent or remote backup. INTERNAL DRIVE: According to Crystal Disk Info, the drive in this case is a Seagate ST2000LM007, a thin 7mm, 2.5in, 5400rpm drive originally introduced in the 2016 line of portable hard drives became. It's good to know what drive is inside an external drive. As there is often much more information available online about a particular drive model, this is certainly the case for this drive - the searches come up fairly frequently ) technology to increase data density on the drive. can cause write speed issues. This is most useful for applications like backups that don't require frequent overwrites. TWO DISKS IN A 7MM DRIVE CAN MEAN A MORE FRAGILE DRIVE: Seagate packed two rotating platters into a very thin 7mm case and had to redesign the drive to accommodate it. The specifics of how it's made suggest it might not be the best choice for a drive you'll want to carry around and use on a daily basis. If you intend to carry an external drive with you on a regular basis, I would suggest going with a more rugged design than this. one, even if it means a slightly larger design. When it comes to an external drive, there isn't much of a difference in size between a 9mm drive, which can more easily hold two platters, and a 7mm drive. CONTROL AND WRITE SPEED: I did a few hard drive writes and found nothing surprising. . The performance for your use is highly dependent on the connected computer, the speed of the computer's hard drives, and the USB connection. USB POWER: The drive is powered by the USB port. There is no external power supply. All in all, that's a good thing - it's a lot easier to use on disk, and therefore more likely to back up your files more often. Note, however, that this will not work with an unpowered USB hub or with a standard low-power USB port. 1.8 TB STORAGE: As usual for hard drive marketing, the listed size of 2 TB means 2 trillion bytes will be stored. , which your system reports as 1.81 TB.