Their plan is to sell super cheap hardware, then make tons of money off recovery services that cost an arm & a leg.Hard drives fail. decisions for people you hate, buy them Seagate hardware. REMEMBER: If you frequently fix computers and make I.T. Good design, too bad it's Seagate hardware. I'm done with this company and it's problematic producs they don't stand behind. Have multiple other drives lying around here. A Seagate HDD? No thanks, I still remember how they asked me for over $1000 in order to recover data from a 7200.14 2TB Barracuda that literally did nothing but sit in a case - all less than a year into warranty (they also asked me for the serial in order to invalidate the warranty with me on the damn phone - I can't believe it to this day I've been through this nightmare with Shitgate!). Secondary Storage: Intel 750 400GB U.18637390 said:DaglesJ and Thudervore have just read my thoughts.

OS Storage: Intel 730 480GB SSD - Buy from Amazon / Read our review.

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 - Buy from Amazon / Read our review.

Memory: Klevv CRAS 16GB (4x4) DDR4 3000 - Read our review.

Cooler: Noctua NH-U12S - Buy from Amazon / Read our review.

CPU: Intel Core i5 6500 - Buy from Amazon.

Motherboard: ASUS Z170 Premium - Buy from Amazon.

Overall, this solution is the one you want if you are in the market for an ultra-portable unit at the 2TB capacity. With that said, I was able to get 138 MB/s read out of this unit while write speeds came only slightly lower at 113 MB/s. As I stated above, we have nearly three years of drives in our charts at this point, and this latest solution is very close to being the quickest portable HDD based unit I have tested. The performance was on par and even exceeded the sequential performance of previous drives. Build quality is top notch and with the bonus of 200GB of cloud storage, it certainly makes this solution even more enticing. With 2TB of capacity and not sacrificing any performance, this solution is fit for even the enthusiast that wants to take data with them on the go. The Backup Plus Ultra Slim is leading the next generation of ultra-portable solutions.

With that kind of performance and a rather decent price per GB, Seagate has setup the Ultra Slim to take the second spot in our chart at 97.24%.

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