Seagate Seven: a sophisticated approach to storing information

Every company, especially a company struggling in the field of IT, has its own way of marking significant dates for its own history. Most often you can see products that are representatives of serial lines with a slightly modified design. But sometimes, albeit rarely, you can see very interesting attempts to beat the dignity of devices that are separated from us for dozens of years, although now these "virtues" can only provoke an indulgent smile.

So, Seagate Seven , the hero of this text, is designed to remind you that 35 years ago the world appeared first "compact" HDD from Seagate Technology. For that time, the form factor storage device 5.25 "seemed something unusual, ST-506 in general, in fact, began the use of this format in the manufacture of HDD. The volume, however, was only 5 megabytes, and the thickness a little shocking modern user - eight and a quarter centimeters.

Seagate Seven, presented in the first days of 2015, these indicators have changed and very noticeable. So, the seven in the title says about the thickness of this external storage - 7 millimeters. Colleagues in the office say that be inside the Seven SSD-drive, it would be even thinner, lighter and so on. Only here there will be questions with the price, and it would be strange to demonstrate a thirty-five-year history of perfecting the HDD on a drive of a completely different standard. However, everything in order.

Start anyway with the packaging, although for a long time there is no point in delaying it. Thick cardboard, the valve, leaning back to open a review on the contents of the box. Inside is Seven itself and USB-microUSB 3.0 cable in fabric braiding and a traditional set of "waste paper". There is nothing superfluous, although I think that it would not hurt the fabric cheholchik.

As for design - it's hard to blame Seven for the lack thereof. If we consider that one of the key parameters of this disk is the thickness, then it would not be possible to be particularly wise with all the desire. Therefore, it was necessary to use steel, "wrapping" an ultra-low-profile five-millimeter drive with a sturdy "cocoon" to protect sensitive electronics and HDD mechanics.

Cutting about Seagate Seven does not work out, but you can easily remove it in any pocket, at least shirts, at least bags, even trousers. In the inactive state, minor discomforts surrounding the reality of the disk are not terrible, and in the active for the safety of the plates, heads and eventually your data is answered by a cunning system of gyroscopes and sensors.

The length of the complete cable is sufficient for most situations, it is stiff and peregnetsya or overturned obviously not soon. Moreover, it is also not necessary to hang around and hang out from side to side, this section of the wire also should not, because at the expense of a certain "rod" the form is also ready to be kept for a long time.

And what about the data exchange rates? When connected to a computer via a USB 3.0 interface connector, you can achieve speeds of about 100 megabytes per second, with periodic bursts of up to 110-115 megabytes when recording. The average level of 100 megabytes, supported by the screenshot below, can be considered more than sufficient for everyday tasks.

For fans of accurate and timely backups of everything and everything in the kit comes preinstalled application Seagate Dashboard. If you are not already backing up valuable data, you can start with this application.

Well, as for some "common operational qualities", it can be noted, perhaps, only some kind of excessive inclination of the Seagate Seven body to collect not even prints, but traces of touch. Well, as on the unpainted metal of the same refrigerators there is a condensed trace of touch, so here. But the visual perception of the disc is practically unaffected by this moment.

By the way, the price for Seven model from Seagate the amount of 500 gigabytes is 100 US dollars, and on the Russian market the model is currently not detected, but it is not possible to imagine the approximate cost of the problem. They say that it is still possible to order an engraving over the ocean before buying. In this case, Seven will be an excellent gift to anyone - gigabytes are not superfluous!

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