Seagate External Hard Drive GoFlex HDD Test And Reviews
Posted in External Hard Drive Reviews by Manyu Sunday, September 11th, 2011
Seagate GoFlex external hard drive, supporting the USB 2.0 interface, the colorare black, red, silver, blue (the color code representative of the last one) for consumers to choose.Seagate GoFlex external hard drive appearance is different from the previous generation products, its decorated with polished shell design, the overall sense of flow lines. In order to make it more lightweight, ABS plastic shell with a material to protect the internal hard drive.
Seagate GoFlex external hard drive, speed 5400PRM, the current capacities of 320GB, 500GB, size 111 × 83 × 14 mm and weighs 150 grams, supports AES 192-bit encryption in the Windows system, folder synchronization and automatic pc backup software.
Plate body can be separated with interface, we can replace to Seagate USB 3.0, eSATA and firewire 800 interfaces designed specifically for it.
A GoFlex products vast has three major components the hard drive, data cable and adapter, storage system device.
USB 3.0 interface is the storage industry’s latest technology, its maximum transmission bandwidth of up to 4.8Gbps, which is 625MB / s or so, the speed is ten times the USB 2.0 interface, and are backward compatible with USB 2.0 interface.
eSATA interface can theoretically reach 3Gbps transfer rate, but the actual application, subject to the internal hard disk transfer rate and the constraints of the motherboard, the actual data transmission may range between 1.5Gbps to 3Gbps, but still higher than IEEE 1394, USB2.0 transfer rate. now motherboards common with wSATA interface.
firewire 800 transfer speeds can theoretically reach up to 3200Mb / s, a large amount of data to meet the most demanding file transfer and video applications. But now there is little board support for firewire 800 interface products, primarily for users using of Apple computer.
With USB 3.0 interface, so we introduced a new motherboard with Gigabyte “GA-H55N-USB3″, it is the world’s first powered USB 3.0 interface specification Mini Mini-ITX motherboard.
Software Testing
HD Tune: The main function of hard disk transfer rate testing, health testing, temperature testing and disk surface scan. Hard disk firmware version, serial number, capacity, cache size and the current Ultra DMA mode.
CrystalDiskMark-v2.20: storage size of the test, the test can also read and write speed.
FastCopy: FastCopy on the Windows platform is the fastest file copy, delete the software.
USB2.0 write test: speed over 30MB / S.
Test Summary: under the USB 2.0 interface, the speed of Seagate GoFlex external hard drive compared to similar products, its among the best. HD Tuch software testing, its reading and writing speed respectively is 31.8MB / S, 18.3MB / S. However, in the HD Tune test reading and writing, respectively is 30.81MB / S with 18.9MB / S, the curve to read and write is very smooth, it’s good in similar products.
Test Summary: Seagate GoFlex HDD in USB 3.0 interface test, the test curve is not smooth, starting from the highest rate was in decline,it is a common phenomenont in he early introduction of USB 3.0. Finally, the average read and write speeds respectively up to 67MB / S, Burst has reached 79.5MB / S, such as reading and writing speed has similar with 2.5-inch hard drive with the SATA interface. in actual use, accounting for 8% CPU has little effect of the whole system.
In this comparison, it is clear that read and write performance of USB 3.0 interface of GoFlex external hard drive are two to three times higher than USB 2.0, read and write are in the 80MB / S or so, has been considered to the SATA interface hard disk performance. However, under the USB 2.0 interface also has a good academic performance, reading speed 23.7MB / S, write speed also reached 21.31MB / S.
Test Summary: 12875.9MB enough to play the actual transmission performance of USB 3.0, throughout the transmission process, a GoFlex Hard Drive USB 3.0 interface, the average speed of 53MB / S over,the entire 12GB game file transfer finished just 242.89 seconds, about 4 minutes. USB 2.0, however, under long time to copy than the end, spent a total of 625.33 seconds. Strong enough to see the advantages of USB 3.0, as long as you are willing, you can experience the efficiency of high-speed transmission.
Seagate GoFlex external hard drive also has multi-functional backup, synchronization software, multiple computers can perform data synchronization, and bare metal system restore.
If there is a serious crash or virus attack, Seagate GoFlex external hard drive can almost instantaneous restoration of files you have backed up, thus ensuring access the file at times of crisis.
In addition to choices a variety of cable, you can use GoFlex or GoFlex Pro ultra-portable hard drive with a GoFlex TV HD Media Player or GoFlex Net media sharing network equipment to enhance the sensory experience of hard disk storage. Meanwhile GoFlex can interoperate in windows and Mac operating systems.
Seagate External Hard Drive GoFlex HDD Test And Reviews: As long as you have Seagate GoFlex external hard drive, then you have many possibilities, allowing it to adapt to USB 2.0, USB 3.0, eSATA and firewire 800 interfaces environments. Also make it into a high-definition playback devices, also making it a network media sharing center. Of course you will spend a lot of money to achieve the various results above, because if you only bought a GoFlex Hard Drive USB 2.0, then the other devices are to be purchased separately.
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