- Seagate Ultra Compact SSD has a surprising resemblance to a thumb impulse
- The price can be a conflict point for users, and performance leaves much to be desired
- The slow disappearance of flash drives marches
Seagate’s new portable SSD is small but powerful, and it can well mark another clove in the coffin for flash units.
The new ultra compact SSD of the firm, which is available in a 1 TB and 2TB format, has a small and elegant design that resembles a thumb lever or a higher flash unit than a portable SSD.
Complete with a USB-C port, the SSD includes a single-piece aluminum housing and measures 2.7 x 0.7 x 0.34 inches. In particular, Seagate had sustainability during development, with the impulse composed of at least 35% of recycled materials. From a durability perspective, you can also receive a slight beating, classified for drops of up to three meters while presenting resistance to dust and water resistance IP54, so how do you coincide with other counterparts of the industry?
Under the seagate ultra-compact SSD hood
As mentioned, the unit comes in 1TB and 2TB options. Both offer sequential reading and writing speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps.
Tests based on PCMark 10 traces by Tom hardware However, he showed that he was not up to other options available in the market. In transfer rates, the unit also “does not impress”, particularly in reading speeds.
Its writing speed of 512 Mbps classified it in fourth place behind the Power DS72 (1TB), Silicon Power MS70 (1TB) and the PNY Pro Elite 3 (1TB). Tom hardware In addition, he pointed out that with a mixed file reading speed of 570 Mbps, this remains a fairly impressive performance for such a compact unit.
However, a particular area that users can find attractive are backup recovery options. The SSD sends with the Seagate rescue data recovery service, which covers users for up to three years.
In total, the SSD is an impressive kit for your daily user. Capabilities may be missing in some areas, but its compact design will probably be a raffle.
However, there is an important detail that could discourage customers: the price. The 1TB option reaches £ 90.99, which makes it an average option compared to other available units. The price jump to the 2TB version, with a price of $ 179.99, could be discordant.
