I would have like to have seen it covered with a rubberized finish, or supplied with a silicon rubber skin, since the plastic is rather slippery in the hand. The drive itself is smooth, black metal, about double the thickness of a normal USB drive. Because my data storage tends to be mostly digital images and high-resolution digital audio files, in an age of 32GB SD and Compact Flash cards for your camera, filling a 4TB drive isn’t all that difficult. Seriously, 4TBs in your pocket, could you have imagined this being a reality even five years ago? But it is a reality, and amazingly I’ve almost filled up all that storage space.
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When I first unpacked the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Fast Portable Drive I started to giggle (I’ll admit to it!) because the idea that I could pop 4TBs of data in my pocket simply amazed me. The point is that how we manage data is at a point of intersection. How many of us have ever even heard the term zettabytes? Our guess is, not very many! First kilobytes, then megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, petabytes, and now zettabytes. This will cause cloud service providers to look for innovative ways to store more within an existing footprint while lowering operational costs,” In that quote he was referring to their new Enterprise drives, but the lesson remains. In the first of this multi-part article on Seagate’s approach to storage, we discuss the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Fast Portable Drive, followed by articles on the newly released 6TB Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD v4 Hard Drives, and SoftRaid 4 & 5 software.Īccording to Seagate’s Scott Horn, VP of Marketing, “Unstructured data growth is doubling exponentially and will propel the digital universe to reach 16 Zettabytes of data by as early as 2017. Apple introduced the 512K Macintosh to great fanfare, yet we now speak of terabytes as an everyday reality and petabytes are on the horizon for some users! We have spent a considerable amount of time working with Seagate’s storage products, from a very fast, portable, and enormous USB 3 drive to a pair of their new Enterprise Level drives driven as a mirror by the venerable SoftRaid 4 & 5 software. It’s an undeniable fact that our data storage needs are in a constant growth pattern.
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