amazon Seagate Expansion 1TB reviews

With capacities up to 1TB with USB 3.0 interface, the Seagate Expansion 1TB external hard drive is the perfect choice for mobile storage solutions, helping you carry all your personal data with you.

Design

The Seagate Expansion 1TB portable hard drive features an angular design and a black plastic exterior to prevent scratches and fingerprints.

This portable hard disk model is quite thick compared to other Seagate models (about 22mm) and weighs just 275g.

Seagate Expansion comes with a USB 3.0 port on the top, which comes with a USB 3.0 cable.

The bottom of the device has four small round rubber feet, which grip the flat surfaces.

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Performance:

Seagate Expansion is equipped with a 2.5-inch SATA-2 interface, 1TB, 5400 rpm.

In the average read speed test with the HD Tune Pro software via USB 2.0, the Seagate Expansion 1TB hard drive achieved 30.2MB / s with a stable horizontal reading curve, although still aliasing.

The average write speed measured through the USB 2.0 port is lower, reaching only 24.3MB / s and the readout path is also jagged.

Switching to ATTO software, the Seagate Expansion 1TB hard drive reads / writes 33MB / s and 26MB / s respectively via USB 2.0.

Meanwhile, USB 3.0 read / write speeds are up to 90MB / s, nearly three times higher than those measured through USB 2.0.

Test configuration: BMC Intel DX79SI, Intel Core i7-3960X 3.3GHz processor, 4Gb RAM G.Skill DDR3 RAM, ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB VGA, 320GB SSD Intel, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit OS.

Measurement Tools: HD Tune Pro 4.60 and ATTO.

The Seagate Expansion 1TB hard drive: 3 year warranty.