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- #Seagate expansion 8tb crystal diskmark serial number#
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The drive stays relatively cool when used for a long time. The build is good, we have this small white led here, which blinks when there’s drive activity. It is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 but to get the best performance a USB 3.0 port is necessary. I’m so glad it’s fast enough and not painful like the backup plus. Read and write speeds are around 250 MBps max as per Crystal disk mark, I got around 120-130 MBps when copying files. Copying multiple files, it split the bandwidth between the various copying tasks. I have seen other youtubers shuck the drive’s out and use it in their NAS and being installed in a NAS it provides much better data throughput.Ĭopying files hovered around 120-130 MBps which is not bad at all considering it’s over USB. So here we have a drive which is 38k, which is installed into an external drive enclosure and sold for 10K less? Not sure if these drives had any problems during manufacturing to be sold this way. Looking for the same drive on amazon and we find it at around 38k. This is the model number ST16000NM001G, and search on google, Seagate’s own website lists it here as an EXOS drive. Of course I don’t want to open it as I want the warranty.
#Seagate expansion 8tb crystal diskmark serial number#
Using Crystal diskinfo, I could get the serial number of the drive within. Seagate being a drive manufacturer could make a model specific for these external drives, but that would cost money to design, and they would like to be able to ship these drives out using their existing sku’s.
#Seagate expansion 8tb crystal diskmark pro#
The barracuda drives top out at 5tb, Ironwolf, Ironwolf Pro and Skyhawk models have drives upto 18-20 TB.Īnd Exos, Seagate’s enterprise drives are available upto 20 TB. Seagate has 16 Tb drives, but only in their Ironwolf or EXOS enterprise drives. But it’s noticeable that there’s only one drive within. Also, I expected maybe two 8 tb drives would be sandwiched together for the 16tb capacity. I expected the drive to be a SMR drive similar to what was provided in the backup plus. Now for the secret, I was looking for an internal drive, 10tb at max as they were in the range of 25-27,000 Rs. We also get a creative cloud photography account for only a month.
#Seagate expansion 8tb crystal diskmark registration#
It just opens up a drive registration page, no other software is provided, we need to use windows backup to schedule any backups. Opening it up, we have the warranty document and start here win which is for windows, if you have a mac run the start here mac app. We can see the space available is around 14.9 TB, which is normal, for manufacturers one kb is 1000 bytes but windows takes it as 1024 which is the right number, so we lose that much space because of this. A new drive pop’s up with the name Expansion and we see the Expansion Drive Icon. Plug in the drive and it’s detected by windows, and here we go. It does need external power, and it cannot run without it. Let’s power up the drive and connect it to a USB port on my desktop. Yeah, so as I said, it looks like any other external drive. The bottom has the drive information, and also rubber feet to keep the drive from slipping around. On the back we have the micro-b connector and a barrel power port. The sides and back have vents, you can catch a glimpse of the drive within.
#Seagate expansion 8tb crystal diskmark portable#
It’s not a portable drive and needs external power to run.ĭimensions are 5 inches wide and 7 inches long, so this drive is a bit big. We have the Seagate logo on top, with this angled line design. Now for the main drive, it looks just like a standard external drive. I’m using this 3-prong plug as it will keep the adapter in place. Slide off the protective cover and we have a choice of adapters, which we can slide in as required. Power adapter, and you can see there’s no actual plug on it. Usb-A to USB Micro-B cable, which allows getting USB 3.0 speeds. This is the main drive, which we’ll get to in a bit, and this box here are the accessories.
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This is the largest consumer grade external hard drive available in the market. Let’s get it open and see what we get in the box. That’s going to be enough storage for me for some time at least. This is the Seagate Expansion 16TB Desktop External HDD, yes 16 Terabytes. A little more research into the drive and I found a Secret so surprising, I’ll tell you about it in this video. While searching through amazon the Seagate Expansion 16TB Desktop External HDD popped up by chance. With around 6+ terabytes of video data to backup, I needed an external backup solution which doesn’t take years to copy to.
#Seagate expansion 8tb crystal diskmark plus#
I had purchased a 5 TB Seagate Backup portable plus external hard drive around a year back, being a SMR drive it starts getting slower as it fills up.