Price When Reviewed

$79.99 (2TB); $124.99 (4TB); $139.99 (5TB)

Best Prices Today: Seagate Ultra Touch (2023)

$103.73

$143.65

As nice as SSDs are, there’s nonetheless a spot for arduous disk drives in a PC person’s arsenal. Data backup is a primary instance, the place capability trumps velocity on this job that usually runs throughout off hours. Seagate’s Ultra Touch HDD presents as much as 5TB of capability, together with another added options, which might be sufficient to make it stand out above different choices.

Further studying: See our roundup of the best external drives to find out about competing merchandise.

Thanks to the exFAT file system, the moveable Seagate Ultra Touch HDD is appropriate with Windows, Mac OS, in addition to Chrome OS. It might be linked through USB-C. The drive comes with a Type-C to C cable with an honest size of 19.30 inches. It doesn’t embody any adapters for connection variants.

In the benchmark exams with CrystalDiskMark, the Ultra Touch proved to be a excessive performer. On common, the information charges are over 155MB/s for studying and writing. The exterior HDD is a tad stronger in studying than in writing.

This is confirmed by the real-world outcomes, the place it reads our take a look at DVD at a very good 143MB/s and writes at over 139MB/s. The distinction between reads and writes is obvious on the subject of our music package deal take a look at, which consists of over 1000 MP3 recordsdata: Here, the Touch achieves a very good 110MB/s in studying, however solely just below 65MB/s in writing.

The Touch’s Seagate HDD operates at 5400 revolutions per minute and has 128MB cache.

The software program options are beneficiant: In addition to Seagate Toolkit, which offers hardware-encrypted password safety, there are two trial subscriptions for six months every for Dropbox Backup Plan for backing as much as the cloud and Mylio Photos for managing and enhancing photos.

There are solely so some ways you may gown up the considerably stodgy class of HDDs. But on condition that all of us nonetheless have a use for them, Seagate’s Ultra Touch is a nice cadidate for the job.

Further studying: 3 reasons you should still buy a hard drive.

This evaluation was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.