Seagate Ultra Compact Review

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We see the word very often on this page, often related to graphics cards or other electrifying elements of computer equipment and used to mark better performance. Here he is attached to something as prosaic as USB SSD and represents a reduction in something: size.

Ultra compact is tiny. There are standard USB flash drives, which are similar in dimensions, but it is all 1 TB (2 TB is also available) rapid storage in a packet of gum, a tiny folding knife in your pocket or three and half (maybe four) of the end of the end to the end, if you prefer non-matrical measurements. At one end there is a string loop if you feel like wearing it around the neck as an avant -garde fashion accessory. They are all furious in Paris.

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It is a disk with a metal, which is equipped with a two -piece rubber prevention to provide it with some protection, although a string loop and chassis chassis always stick up. The latter is probably as a bit sultry, and because the ultra compact is equipped with alleged resistance to 3 resistance to IP54 penetration (which means you can be a little soggy and dusty, but if you bury it in the sand at the bottom of the ocean, it will probably stop working).

The rubber vagina is not really to protect it from breaking it on the tiles, but rather to make it a bit sticky so that it does not slip too easily from the desk (as a result she really loves dust), and as a result stops the fluff from the crease of the USB-C port. It is also aimed at protecting crucial things from the drive – like the Wii pilot, who had a similar optional boing coating to save innocent TV screens with the Wii Sports Trebuchet effect, it has hard edges that can potentially outline the phone if you are unreasonable enough to put them in the same pocket.

Seagate Ultra Compact Specifications

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Capacity: 1 TB or 2 TB
Interface: USB 3.2 GEN 2
Dimensions: 70 x 20 x 12.5 mm
Libra: 24 g
Price: £ 97 / USD 95

And it should be a USB plug, not a port. Unlike many other portable SSDs, Seagate Ultra Compact does not come with a Dinky USB cable in a box, which you will immediately drop in favor of a longer one, which will actually reach the back of the computer. Instead, it connects straight to the USB-C port in the same way as a million flash USB. This has two effects: it makes it more portable, and this makes it more convenient, because you don’t have to worry about carrying a cable with you, and you can easily connect it straight to a computer, phone or iPad to get a fun transferring files, while USB-C rotary symmetry means that you don’t have to worry about the right one. The downside is that it protrudes straight, without the additional flexibility that the cable brings. So instead of hanging behind a computer, it can refresh yourself against the wall or get out of the upper part of the steam deck like a silver middle finger directed to the one who sits opposite you.

Seagate claims that the transfer speed of 1000 Mb/SG USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface, and we get most of the time, at least in terms of compact, sequential writers – ultra compact is unusual among external SSDs, because he writes faster than we read. In writing, he overcomes the key X9 and even the Sandisk desk at the USB 3.2 Gen 2 rate, although of course he cannot keep up with Gen 2×2 Gen devices. When random readings and records were tested, Little Seagate could defeat X6 only while reading, but he attacked almost everything we tested while writing, so much that repetitive tests were ordered from test assistants to see if it was a random strange result.

Read speeds, so crucial for charging times, if you apply it to relieve the game library, they are not so bad, although it is definitely medium tables compared to faster disks such as X9.

Buy if …

✅ The idea of ​​a terabajt in your pocket excites you: It is very compact with the name and ultra compact – uncomplicated to take with you everywhere.

❌ Speed ​​is more crucial than portability: The USB 3.2 Gen 2 interface leads to some decent transfer speeds, but you will get better speeds elsewhere.

In tests for games that include more Final Fantasy XIV than any reasonable person should ever be exposed, this slower read speed is exposed in slightly longer charging times when working with an ultra compact drive. It is not very far behind, and running a dawnbreaker on integrated graphics will be a much larger bottleneck, but if minimizing charging times is crucial, Seagate Drive will not do it, like other disks.

But it seems that choosing a rivet on the disk is so tiny and comfortable. And we can add that he does all this without raising a temperature above 47 ° when wearing a rubber vagina – which is a very good thing for a ride that you intend to catch directly with your hand when you want to remove it instead of pulling out the interstitial cable. The testing laboratory of PC and Emporium Whole Foods was not particularly chilly during the morning, so the exposed section of the housing had to effectively lose heat, because the plastic X6 hit 69 ° in tests.

Seagate Ultra Compact SSD adopts the entire concept of USB flash disk and improves it. It’s metal, it is not brittle, capacity, chilly and brisk. As a discharge of less used parts of the Steam library, maybe other disks that make more sense, because they can more conveniently sit next to the computer, instead of protruding at 90 °, but for a nice companion on a portable computer and something that you can put in a bag without having to check if you have all the bits, this is an uncomplicated recommendation.

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