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Quality


I was surprised by the fact that this device is so tiny yet so convenient for its capacity


Its a winwin especially with the prices coming down


Not sure why they just didnt go with the standard usb c port

Price


The price is a little expensive which is the downside to this item but its easy to work with


Finally at the time of this writing the price was attractive

Shipping


It was fast and had plenty of memory


Just not as fast as the specs might have one believe

Competitiveness


Its very tiny lightweight and sleek for a 500gb drive


The drive itselfthe drive is light and compact


It comes with a 3year warranty and in my experience seagate has been very good in honoring their warranty i have had one claim ...  Read More


Faster speeds would require the use of an nvme drive where you can saturate the usb 3

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  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is low.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 68.7% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 943 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 16 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I ordered this item to accompany the chromebook we are getting our daughterfor christmas


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Talking about photography this drive comes with a free two months subscription to the adobe photography plan which is worth 20 dollars


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    It also seems durable enough to take a drop but i really would like to have seen some rubber trim around the edges rather than plastic


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Benchmarksthe drive comes formatted as exfat


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I benchmarked the drive with exfat and ntfs formats see attached images


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Real world performancereal world performance did not live up to 400 mbs


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    For large files the write speed would start about 255290 mbs and then after 15 seconds or so it would drop down top 66 to 90 mbs depending on how the drive was formatted

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