Solid State Drives
There are two main players in the market when it comes to Solid-State Drives, Seagate and Western Digital. Both are almost equally large and powerful given that Western Digital has acquired SanDisk Corporation in May 2016, while Seagate has joined forces with Toshiba Memory Corporation in June 2018.
The Seagate Fast SSD is one of the latest high speed external solid-state drives in the market, giving us extremely high speed at extremely good value, in fact, one of the best in the market at the moment.
Design
The drive is small, it can fit nicely on our palm. Seagate opted for a combination of hard plastic and metal for the enclosure to improve heat dissipation and durability. The metal part is a perfectly square metallic silver color plate in the middle and Seagate Logo on it while the rest is hard plastic. It’s approximately 9mm thick with a footprint of 94 x 79mm, which means that it can easily slip into one’s pocket to be carried around. At only 82g, it is extremely light and highly portable. Both USB Type C and USB Type A cables are provided.
Value
The Seagate Fast SSD comes with 2 months of FREE ADOBE CC PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN worth USD 20. Albeit not waterproof or splash proof, given the current price to value ratio, the Seagate Fast SSD is one of the best external solid-state drives out there and it’s an excellent performer, relatively small, plus it has a nice design and a three-year warranty.
Performance
The Seagate Fast SSD is one of the fastest external SSD in the market at the moment. Performance is at peak when we are using USB Type C to USB Type C while it's slightly slower when we are using USB Type C (SSD) to USB Type A (Computer). Due to this extremely fast performance, I'm able to edit my videos in 4K with much less Lag, even though my computer is considered to be quite old and incapable of handling video editing in 4K. I'm using a 6th Generation Intel i7 laptop with 16gb high speed ram, nvidia 960m 4gb. Before we talk about video editing, let me explain a little.
First of all, we should not mix Mb/s and MBPS. They mean very different things and is the absolute source of confusion for many people. Capital B means BYTES and small b means bits. There’s 8 bits in 1 BYTE.
High end cameras using professional codecs usually take 100 to 400 Mbps. 400 Mbps translates to 50 MB/sec. Even a slow hard drive can read/write 80 MB/sec but the problem is that they tend to slow down a lot, 100-fold to 1000-fold if the data is randomly stored, a typical problem of spinning Hard Disk Drives. Most video professionals use high end RAID or SSDs systems to ensure that video editing is always smooth. They often use a mixture of fast RAID storage for long term storage but use the SSD for lightning fast working storage.
Running at above 300 MB/sec on average even on my slow computer, the Seagate Fast SSD has fixed this issue for me.
There are two main players in the market when it comes to Solid-State Drives, Seagate and Western Digital. Both are almost equally large and powerful given that Western Digital has acquired SanDisk Corporation in May 2016, while Seagate has joined forces with Toshiba Memory Corporation in June 2018.
The Seagate Fast SSD is one of the latest high speed external solid-state drives in the market, giving us extremely high speed at extremely good value, in fact, one of the best in the market at the moment.
Design
The drive is small, it can fit nicely on our palm. Seagate opted for a combination of hard plastic and metal for the enclosure to improve heat dissipation and durability. The metal part is a perfectly square metallic silver color plate in the middle and Seagate Logo on it while the rest is hard plastic. It’s approximately 9mm thick with a footprint of 94 x 79mm, which means that it can easily slip into one’s pocket to be carried around. At only 82g, it is extremely light and highly portable. Both USB Type C and USB Type A cables are provided.
Value
The Seagate Fast SSD comes with 2 months of FREE ADOBE CC PHOTOGRAPHY PLAN worth USD 20. Albeit not waterproof or splash proof, given the current price to value ratio, the Seagate Fast SSD is one of the best external solid-state drives out there and it’s an excellent performer, relatively small, plus it has a nice design and a three-year warranty.
Performance
The Seagate Fast SSD is one of the fastest external SSD in the market at the moment. Performance is at peak when we are using USB Type C to USB Type C while it's slightly slower when we are using USB Type C (SSD) to USB Type A (Computer). Due to this extremely fast performance, I'm able to edit my videos in 4K with much less Lag, even though my computer is considered to be quite old and incapable of handling video editing in 4K. I'm using a 6th Generation Intel i7 laptop with 16gb high speed ram, nvidia 960m 4gb. Before we talk about video editing, let me explain a little.
First of all, we should not mix Mb/s and MBPS. They mean very different things and is the absolute source of confusion for many people. Capital B means BYTES and small b means bits. There’s 8 bits in 1 BYTE.
High end cameras using professional codecs usually take 100 to 400 Mbps. 400 Mbps translates to 50 MB/sec. Even a slow hard drive can read/write 80 MB/sec but the problem is that they tend to slow down a lot, 100-fold to 1000-fold if the data is randomly stored, a typical problem of spinning Hard Disk Drives. Most video professionals use high end RAID or SSDs systems to ensure that video editing is always smooth. They often use a mixture of fast RAID storage for long term storage but use the SSD for lightning fast working storage.
Running at above 300 MB/sec on average even on my slow computer, the Seagate Fast SSD has fixed this issue for me.
Close to 400 MB/s on my slow computer. USB Type C to USB Type A connections
USB Type C to USB Type C Connection on a more recent computer. Comparison Chart.
Software
The drive comes pre-formatted in exFAT which makes it compatible out of the box with both Windows and Mac. Apart from that, we also get a free download of Seagate’s own Toolkit suite which includes backup and folder mirroring capabilities.
The drive comes pre-formatted in exFAT which makes it compatible out of the box with both Windows and Mac. Apart from that, we also get a free download of Seagate’s own Toolkit suite which includes backup and folder mirroring capabilities.
Verdict
PROS :
1. Extremely Impressive Speed
2. Great Pricing
3. Light and Compact
4. Three Year Warranty
5. Free 2 Months of Adobe CC Photography Plan
6. Supports both USB Type C and Type A with two included cables
CONS :
1. Not Waterproof or Splashproof
The Seagate Fast SSD is Available HERE :
https://www.seagate.com/as/en/consumer/backup/fast-ssd/
PROS :
1. Extremely Impressive Speed
2. Great Pricing
3. Light and Compact
4. Three Year Warranty
5. Free 2 Months of Adobe CC Photography Plan
6. Supports both USB Type C and Type A with two included cables
CONS :
1. Not Waterproof or Splashproof
The Seagate Fast SSD is Available HERE :
https://www.seagate.com/as/en/consumer/backup/fast-ssd/
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