Indeed, 2TB seems to be the capacity sweet spot these days for platter-based portable drives.
#Seagate backup plus 2tb portable hard drive review full
If you might need the full 2TB of space, get the full 2TB. The 1TB version of the drive is a much lesser value given the $69.99 MSRP and thus, the much higher cost per gig. At times, you'll see 2TB portable drives on sale for $10 or $20 less, so we expect the Ultra Touch to see similar reseller discounting to stay competitive. For most folks, that's a lifetime's worth of music and photos, unless they tend to save in lossless music formats or very high-res photo formats.Īt an $89.99 MSRP for this 2TB version, the bottom-line price of storage here is an appealing 4.5 cents per gigabyte.
After all, a 2TB drive can hold, say, roughly 4 million 500K photos or half a million typical MP3s. One thing to note: While the fabric has a pleasing, humanizing feel, I didn't find it all that much grippier or anti-slip than sheer plastic or metal.Īlthough even the higher-capacity of Seagate's two Ultra Touch drives isn't a storage monster (you can find portable drives around this size with 4TB or 5TB mechanisms inside), the 2TB unit I am looking at still delivers a fair amount of storage for mainstream use.
As for the fabric coat, it remains to be seen how well it resists scuffing and dirt you can't just throw it in the washer/dryer, after all. (That's just about the same size as, but 1.7 ounces lighter than, the similar Mobile Drive by LaCie, a 2019 release that I am reviewing alongside this model.)Įven though the drive enclosure is plastic, the whole thing feels solid and sturdy. Seagate's swirl logo lives, unobtrusively, in the lower left-hand corner of the case.Īs you would expect, the drive is small and light, measuring only 0.46 inch thick with a 3.1-by-4.5-inch footprint. (This drive-side connector may look nonstandard, but replacement cables using this connector are widely available.) The chassis' edges are soft and rounded, with no sharp corners to poke or snag on a shirt pocket or laptop bag compartment. The fabric wrap aside, the enclosure is solid but lightweight, bearing a bright-white drive-activity LED at the bottom of the chassis' face, and a Micro-USB Type-B connector along the bottom edge.
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