Seagate recently launched a Goflex Slim external hard drive, GoFlex USB 3.0 interface, the body using 7200rpm hard drive, enhanced the overall performance of the external hard disk. we will take a reviews of Goflex Slim external hard drive.
Seagate GoFlex Slim External Hard Drive USB 3.0 Reviews
The appearance of thin is one of the important feature for this Goflex Slim, the thickness only 9 mm. Built-in Seagate Momentus Thin hard drive, not only thin, speed of 7200rpm, the performance is also strong.
We are familiar with Seagate Goflex interface, Seagate developed “universal” interface. One port is Goflex, the other can be USB, eSATA, etc. This supports USB 3.0, so use USB cable standard.
Here we enter the actual testing phase, in fact, the USB 3.0 device we have ever measured before, which is indeed much improved compared to USB 2.0. First, we use CrystalDiskMark, uses the more common 1000MB data testing.
From the test results, sustained data transfer rate is good, reading speed reached 116.7MB / s, 115.7MB / s of write speed, this result is close to low-speed SATA hard drive. 512K and 4K random read and write files, or lower than SATA, but compared to USB 2.0 Hard Drive have improved too much.
HD Tune test, the average read speed is 90.5MB / s, access time 17.4ms, CPU occupancy rate was higher, 23.2%.
Atto Disk Benchmark is mainly to test sustained transfer rate of hard drive disk, here we see that reading is about 118MB / s, writing speed is 117MB / s.
PCMark Vantage’s HDD test results, the final score is 3058 points.
Finally, we test the speed of the actual copy files with Fastcopy, still using 6.7GB of 720P movie “Pirates of the dream space.” The actual transfer rate of copy is 107.57MB / s, consuming a total of 1 minute 2 seconds.
Finally, take a look at the test results of HDD project by PCMark Vantage.
Summary: Goflex Slim is a compact exterior external hard drive disk with simmple design, the performance of USB 3.0 interface design and 7200rpm disk body is also very good. The the capacity of external hard disk drive we tested is 320GB [ if you want to purchase, BesthddTech is a good choice! Seagate 2TB External Hard Drive FreeAgent GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 HDD Special Price: $199.82 ]
