In order to make it more convenient for users to carry, the external design of mobile hard disks has become thinner and lighter recently. The Seven mobile hard drives launched by Seagate this time are specially equipped with their own Ultrathin ultra-thin series 2.5-inch hard drives, so that the thickness of this mobile hard drive is only 7mm. And this hard drive also comes with a DASHBOARD software, which can not only be used to back up files on PC or MacOS systems, but also provide mobile devices, social networking site data backup and cloud space integration functions, allowing users to use Users can easily manage the data content stored on various platforms through one software.

●Seagate Seven mobile hard disk unpacking and specification introduction

The Seven mobile hard drive launched by Seagate this time has a gray and black color on the outer box, and on the outer box, in addition to directly seeing the appearance of the Seven hard drive, there is a special mark next to the product name. mm unit to indicate The thickness of this mobile ATMEGA168PA-PU hard drive is 7mm as its name.

In addition to the top view and side view of the hard drive on the back of the outer box, there is also a special indication that this Seven mobile hard drive supports Windows and MacOS systems and provides a 3-year limited warranty service.

As can be seen from the barcode sticker at the bottom, the detailed model of this mobile hard drive is STDZ500400, and it is made in China with a storage capacity of 500GB.

After opening the outer box, you can directly see the main body of this hard drive and the accompanying USB3.0 transmission cable.

There are no other accessories in the package, only a USB3.0 transmission line and a product manual.

The transmission cable that comes with this hard drive is also specially designed with braided wire.

Seagate's new Seven mobile hard drive is made of aluminum metal shell, and at first glance, it looks like a naked hard drive, which is also a very special design. A blue indicator light is specially set above the hard disk, allowing users to directly check the reading status of the hard disk.

This mobile hard drive adopts Micro USB3.0 transmission interface and is backward compatible with USB2.0 transmission port.

The actual weight of the hard drive is about 178 grams.

The size of the Seagate Seven mobile hard drive is 122x82x7mm.

When you actually hold it in your hand, you can see that the Seven mobile hard drive is indeed quite thin and light in appearance compared with other mobile hard drive products.

●Introduction of Seagate DASHBOARD backup software

◆PC backup function

When this hard drive was shipped, Seagate also provided a backup software called DASHBOARD, which not only helps users to quickly backup and restore data files in the computer, but also supports mobile device data backup and cloud space integration. , allowing users to manage their data more easily.

In the PC backup function, a backup plan setting function is provided, which allows users to specify specific folders that need to be backed up.

◆Mobile backup function

In the part of mobile backup, this software mainly backs up the user's data through email binding. It can support mobile devices of both iOS and Android system platforms.

When using the mobile backup function, you need to log in to the user's registered email account and password, and then install the mobile version of the DASHBOARD software on the mobile device, and then you can start setting up a backup plan.

On the mobile device DASHBOARD backup software, also use the same registered email to log in.

When performing backup settings, there are two ways to support Wi-Fi backup and cloud backup. The Wi-Fi backup function is to back up the data in the mobile device to the Seagate mobile hard disk in the same network domain through wireless network transmission. After selecting the backup method, you can then check the file types to be backed up. There are backup options such as photos, videos, music, contacts, call records, and messages.

When the mobile device and the mobile hard disk are in the same local area network, you can see the hard disk option in the menu, and then press the backup now to start transferring data.

The software provided by Seagate can not only back up the mobile device to the hard disk, but also support the cloud backup function, which allows users to back up the data to their own cloud space such as Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive through the network.

If you want to restore the backup data in the future, just open the main menu to see the restore function options, and you can also choose to restore the data from the mobile hard disk in the Wi-Fi local area network will be the cloud space.

If you want to change the registered account, set schedule or notification options later, you can adjust it in the application settings option in the main menu.

◆Social website data backup function

In this software, there is also a social website data backup function, which can directly download and back up the audio and video files on facebook, flickr or Youtube to the hard disk, or directly upload the audio and video files in the hard disk to this software. Several social networking sites to share with others.

After logging in to your social networking site account in the software, you can start downloading backup data or uploading shared files.

◆Cloud space integration function

The DASHBOARD software provided by Seagate also has a cloud space integration function, which can support cloud spaces such as Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or Nero Cloud.

After logging into the cloud space, you can see the storage status of each cloud space on the main screen of the software.

Actual performance test of Seagate Seven mobile hard drive

After reading the hardware and software introduction of the hard disk, finally, it is inevitable to take a look at the performance of the hard disk! The bottom is the test platform for this time, let me give you a reference first!

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○ Operating system: Windows 8.1 64-bit Professional Edition

After connecting to the computer, you can see that this hard drive has been pre-formatted, and it should be used for users to interact with Windows and MacOS system devices. After processing, the available space of the hard disk is about 465GB, and the Dashboard backup software provided by Seagate and product warranty instructions have been preloaded in the hard disk.

Through the information displayed on the CrystalDiskInfo software, we can see that the hard disk model in this mobile hard disk is ST500LT032, which is Seagate's Ultrathin ultra-thin series 2.5-inch hard disk for notebook computers. Its bare thickness specification is only 5mm and has 500GB. storage capacity and a speed specification of 5400rpm.

◆Anvil's Storage Utilities software test (test file size is 1GB)

When using Anvil's Storage Utilities software test, the read and write performance test results of the 4MB sequential project are 93MB/s and 88.93MB/s respectively; the read and write performance test results of the 4K project are 0. 45MB /s respectively and 0.71MB/s. As for the test scores, the reading item score is 121.25 points, the writing item score is 96.04 points, and the total score is 217.29 points.

◆ATTO Benchmark performance test

When the test file length is 8192KB, the read and write performance of this mobile hard drive can reach about 95MB/s and 89MB/s respectively.

◆CrystalDiskMark performance test

In the sequential read and write performance test, the read speed of this mobile hard drive can reach 92.91MB/s and the write speed can reach 94.36MB/s;

The read performance can reach 0.474MB/s, and the write speed can reach 0.77MB/s.

When the test data is switched to 0Fill, the read speed of this mobile hard disk can reach 95.02MB/s, and the write speed can reach 94.37MB/s; the read and write test of 4KB block size

, the read performance can reach 0.477MB/s, and the write speed can reach 0.764MB/s.

◆CrystalMark 2004R3 hard disk project test

The read and write performance of this mobile hard disk in the sequential read project are 84.58MB/s and 75.71MB/s respectively; the read and write performance of the 512K project are 36.18MB/s and 42.27MB/s respectively; The read and write performance in the 64K project are 6.56MB/s and 8.24MB/s respectively; the total test score is 10139 points.

◆Fastcopy software actual transmission test

When using FastCopy software to select a single compressed file with a file size of about 16.7GB and transfer it from the computer to the Seven mobile hard disk, the transfer speed can reach about 95.16MB/s, and the transfer time takes about 179.97 seconds. When using FastCopy software to select a compressed file of the same size and transfer it from the Seven mobile hard disk to the computer, the transfer speed is about 97.08MB/s, and the transfer time is about 176.41 seconds.

Actual use FastCopy software to select a folder containing photos, videos and music types with a total capacity of about 17.8GB and 1464 files, and transfer it from the computer to the Seven mobile hard drive, the transfer speed is about 56.72MB/s. The time takes about 321.69 seconds. Using the FastCopy software to select the same folder, when transferring from the Seven mobile hard disk to the computer, the transfer speed is about 81.86MB/s, and the transfer time is about 222.91 seconds.

●Trial summary

Because Seagate Seven adopts its own ultra-thin series of 2.5-inch hard drives, the thickness of the mobile hard drive is only 7mm, which is indeed quite thin and light compared to the general mobile hard drive products. In addition, the matching backup software also provides a variety of backup functions, allowing users to integrate the data content of PC, mobile device and cloud space, and manage the data content more conveniently. It is a practical software combination. However, due to the limitation of the rotational speed of the hard disk itself, the transmission performance is not very good. In addition, the storage capacity is only 500GB. For the current 2.5-inch mobile hard disk with 1TB~2TB as the mainstream specification, such a capacity specification seems to be slightly A little less.