We have rarely discussed hard drives lately. The only times anyone mentions them is during a laptop purchasing discussion. They are slowly being thought of as technology of the past. As solid-state drives have taken centerstage, it may appear like the ‘buzz’ of hard drives is long gone. That is far from the truth though. Hard drive manufacturers are innovating at a scarily fast pace and scale, and that means the external drives in the market today are faster than you would imagine, and they are the cheapest they have ever been. At the forefront of such developments is Seagate, a company that has been manufacturing hard drives for decades. Their new One Touch line of external drives are among the most popular ones around, and their latest range are interesting for more than a few reasons.
The first thing that comes to mind are the drive capacities. While most drives we are used to purchasing have been limited to 1 or 2TB, the latest Seagate One Touch external hard drives start from as low as the familiar 1TB and go all the way to 5TB. That is an absurd amount of space, much more than you find in most modern laptops or desktops. The sheer bulk of data you can store on it is insane. Take for example, the 5TB drive. You could store all the photos you or your family have ever clicked, on it, or play high quality movies for 6 months, non-stop, day and night! These might seem mind-boggling, but they can be used for more productive purposes, like backing up large amounts of critical data, as well to move massive 4K video projects.
The Seagate One Touch external drives are more than just bulk storage. They are elegant drives, and they look perfect next to your workstation or connected to your TV or media centre system. They come in a range of attractive colours, such as Red, Light Blue, Black, Silver and Space Grey. The drives are also quite compact, and thin considering their massive densities.
As has been the trend lately with external storage drives, these new drives come with USB 3.0 compatibility, that ensures no performance bottleneck. Older drives back in the day used USB 2.0 which limited read and write speeds. The performance limits of USB 3.0 are way higher than the internal drives can manage, in these Seagate One Touch units. These drives are so fast you can install entire operating systems into them or even games and applications if you run out of space on your laptop or PC. You won’t have to bother with the hassles of installing a larger hard drive and migrating the data to it. Simply plug in a Seagate One Touch drive to laptop or PC and you are good to go! What’s more, the hard drives comes ready to be used on Windows and even Macs. Of course, you can reformat the drive into any of the partition types of your choice.
Another piece of truth is that smaller the drive is, the more you pay per gigabyte. So, if you are considering a drive, consider a 4 or 5TB drive, because they get you better value for money. Take a very rough example, if a 1TB drive costs Rs. 3,999 in the market, you pay roughly Rs. 4 per gigabyte (a rough estimation for this example). In comparison, a 5TB Seagate One Touch drive costs roughly Rs. 9,299, which makes the cost per gigabyte around Rs. 1.85, which is a lot cheaper than a 1 or 2TB drive.
The capacities and prices at which these drives are available at, is nothing short of astonishing. You get great bang for your buck, and it could be useful. Anyone working with large volumes of photographs or videos, or any content creation projects can use these high-performance, high-capacity drives to ferry data from one machine to another or just to take backups. It’s also great, if you want to store a whole bunch of movies and TV shows, and you could connect it your 4K TV or media player. Some routers even support connecting external hard drives using the USB port. These routers then behave like a DLNA media streamer device or a network storage server. It allows anyone connected to the router, to stream media and access data to and from it. A single drive like this can serve as your home’s central media storage drive.
Some of us also might like to experiment with other operating systems and we have spoken several times about trying out Linux on your laptops. If you are wary of messing up your Windows installation, you can also use a hard drive like this to install an entire operating system on it, that you can carry everywhere you go. What’s more, the drives work with Seagate’s Sync Plus Software, which can help to make the task of backing up data and restoring easier.
Regardless of what you need a new hard drive for, the new range of Seagate One Touch hard drives should be on your list of considerations considering they look great, perform well and cost so little. Drives have come such a long way, and you can now order your very own Seagate One Touch external hard drive right here, right now at RelianceDigital.in or you can check them out at your nearest Reliance Digital store.
Seagate One Touch hard drives – Capacities like never before
