It beat the WD My Passport 4TB in sustained throughput. Seagate owns LaCie, so losing out to the LaCie Porsche Design 2TB was a small blow for the Backup Plus 5TB. It didn't fare as well with our 20GB mix of files and folders, as seen below. The Seagate Backup Plus aced its encounter with CrystalDiskMark. Seagate's Backup Plus 5TB is a very good performer with large files, but there's a bit of a drop off when writing smaller files and folders. Overall, the drive is plenty fast and perfect for its intended role as, yes-a backup drive. The older but universally compatible FAT file system is slower than NTFS is with small files, but the Backup Plus 5TB was indeed formatted to NTFS. So much so, that we double- and triple-checked the formatting, thinking it used FAT. But like its LaCie Porsche Design cousin (Seagate owns LaCie), it fell well off the pace writing small files and folders. The Backup Plus 5TB was a very good performer writing and reading large files, as well as reading small files.
If you need to password-protect, look to WD and others.
#SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FOR MAC REVIEW SOFTWARE#
As an interested reader and new Backup Plus owner recently reminded me via Answer Line, there is no security software bundled with this drive. One thing you shouldn't do is rely upon data recovery rather than maintaining multiple backup copies of your data, for the simple reason that it's not always possible to recover the data. Indeed, most of mine have lasted more than three years. But it's all about the odds-drives don't always go bad. Data recovery without the warranty can cost many hundreds of dollars. What you do about that is your own affair. Recovery is not 100% certain, so keep your drive backed up. You can purchase recovery insurance, but don't rely on it. Seagate provides a setup utility, which allows you to register, download the Seatools or Dashboard backup utilities, and offers you a data recovery warranty for $10 for two years, or $15 for three years. The unit features a micro-USB port and comes with a cable that plugs into standard USB Type A for transfer speeds of up to 5Gbps. But hey, if you want 5TB, you're going to have to deal with a couple of extra ounces-it takes another platter or two to hold the extra data. That's neither small or light for an external USB hard drive.
#SEAGATE BACKUP PLUS FOR MAC REVIEW PORTABLE#
The Backup Plus Portable 5TB measures about 3 x 4.5 x 0.75 inches and weighs about half a pound. The little black drive is always a classic. Color-coded drives are handy if you're storing separate projects, rotating backups, or just trying to keep track of what's what.
The review unit Seagate sent us was basic, innocuous black.
As shown at the head of the article, the Backup Plus 5TB is available in red, black, silver, and blue.
0 kommentar(er)
