Hopefully this won't be too critical but this drive came
absolutely naked. Not one word of
documentation. Now from what I've read Seagate is proposing this drive is
a consumer packaged drive. I have voice
my criticism in the past about manufactures that sell components and package
them as consumer products without providing adequate documentation or
instruction on how to use them. There was not one wit of documentation
for this drive it arrived as a bare drive in a static envelope.
A simple bit of documentation on how to install and format
the drive would have been enormously helpful. While I know how to do that but
I'm not sure the average consumer wouldn't have to do a bit of research to be
able to use the drive at all. Once the drive was formatted it was
recognized by my computer and I was able to access it and test it.
In a totally unscientific manner, I transferred a 62.1mb
file from my D drive to the SSD drive and to a normal mechanical Hitachi drive. Both drives were hooked up via USB 2.0. Transfer speed from D to SSD was 7.3
seconds. Transfer speed from D to Hitachi was 5.0
seconds. Then I transferred the same
drive from the SSD drive to a third USB drive and it took 4.9 seconds while the
same file transfer from the Hitachi
to the third USB drive took 7.2 seconds.
My numbers did not change dramatically regardless of the repeated
attempts. The speed is impacted by the
drives being USB rather that directly connected to the computer buss. I’m not willing to tear open one of my boxes
to test it with a direct connection. If
and when my laptop drive dies and I replace it with this drive I will update
this review with my tests at that time.
To reiterate, I set it up to be used as a USB external so
the speed won't necessarily read as accurately as far as if it was installed
internally in a computer. Not only are these drives more stable due to the
solid state construction they're all so much faster than a mechanical drive
because there are no moving parts. With the increased use of cloud
storage the small size of the SSD drive will not be as big a handicap is it
used to be. As economy of scale ramps up no doubt they will also decrease in
price from the current price of $189.00.
Over all its a nice little drive.
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Upgrades
existing laptops by replacing client 2.5-inch HDDs with fast, rugged client
SSDs
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nearly 4× faster boot times and more than 2× faster application load times when
compared to typical laptop HDDs
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Significantly
reduces the amount of time end-users must wait before using their devices
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No
mechanical, moving parts helps ensure data stays safe even if laptop is dropped
or bumped while operating
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Supports
SATA 6 Gb/s interface
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