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Seagate Backup Plus Fast review: Double the capacity, double the speed |
April 08, 2014
Seagate has upped the performance ante for portable backup hard drives by stacking two 2TB drives, striped in RAID 0, inside its Backup Plus Fast USB 3.0. Since it writes half the data to one drive and half to a second drive at the same time, you should theoretically get nearly twice the performance.It comes close. This approach also has the happy effect of providing twice the capacity—4 terabytes—of any single 2.5-inch drive solution. That’s enough to take care of just about any backup job.The Backup Plus Fast is a runner. It even bested LaCie’s Thunderbolt-based, RAID 0 dual-drive Little Big Disk by a small margin in sustained throughput. The Little Big Disk, however, blew the Backup Plus Fast away in Crystal Disk Mark’s random write tests—Thunderbolt has some technical advantages.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2128220/seagate-backup-plus-fast-review-double-the-capacity-double-the-speed.html#tk.rss_reviews
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