amazon Seagate Slim 500GB reviews
Ultra-slim and sturdy design, along with a high-speed USB 3.0 interface, the 500GB Seagate Slim mobile hard drive will be the ideal storage solution for frequent travel.
Design
The Seagate Slim 500GB portable hard drive is slim, impressive, weighing in at just 160g. The test version at Test Lab has a black plastic outer shell to help prevent scratches and fingerprints.
The highlight of this portable hard disk model is only 9mm thin.
Slim equipped with USB 3.0 interface, just above is white light signal.
Similar to Seagate’s GoFlex external hard drive models, the Slim hard drive is made up of two separate components: the hard drive and the communication adapter. The hard drive is designed in monolithic format, with a 2.5-inch hard disk drive and a 500GB hard drive. Only the adapter can be easily disassembled, one is the SATA interface connected to the hard disk drive and the other is a USB 3.0 interface to connect to the computer.
The 500GB Seagate Slim comes with a USB 3.0 cable.
The bottom of the device is rough black to avoid scratches when placed on the table.
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Performance
The Seagate Slim portable hard drive is equipped with a hard drive 2.5-inch SATA-2 capacity 500GB, speed 5400 rpm.
The Test Lab tests the actual read / write speed of the 500GB Seagate Slim mobile hard drive with the experimental configuration: BMC Intel DX79SI, 3.3GHz Intel Core i7-3960X processor, G.Skill DDR3 4GB RAM, VGA ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB, SSD Intel 320GB 300GB, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit OS; With HD Tune Pro 4.60 and ATTO measurement tools.
To test the read / write performance of the 500GB Seagate Slim hard drive, Test Lab uses HD Tune Pro 4.60 software and measures over a common USB 2.0 connection. During the read and write process, the performance line are horizontal but not stabilized, and aliasing.
Switching to measuring the actual read / write speed of this external hard disk with ATTO software, Test Lab found that the speed when measured via USB 3.0 was about three times as high as when measured via USB 2.0.
Comes with the Seagate Slim portable hard drive model, Seagate DashBoard software provides the main function of local data backup. In addition, the software also allows sharing and backup images or video from social networking services. Seagate DashBoards comes in both Windows and Mac versions.
