Seagate One Touch STKC4000404 (4TB)

Faster than I expected for a HDD – I needed a portable external hard drive to do a Windows system image back up. The previous year I changed the old internal HDD 900GB to SSD 2TB and I thought it was overdue for a backup. I had 1.2TB to back up. First looked at an SSD but was 3 times the price of a HDD. So I settled on a Seagate One Touch 4TB in Space Grey colour. The trap for… Read more

young players is that it is formatted in exFat. Windows will only to system image back up if the drive is NTFS so I quickly copied the small amount of files on the new HDD and proceed to do a quick disk format in NTFS.

My estimates was the write speed sat around the 125Mbp/s mark, which was comparable to a big old 3.5" Seagate Desktop External HDD I had. My old laptop HDD which is now in a portable enclosure only manages about 112Mbp/s so was a noticeable improvement. Took about 3 hours to back up 1.2TB off the internal SSD.

I did do a speed test with a small 250GB external SSD which clocked 280Mbp/s. I'm not doing full image backups and restores everyday so I will stick with this HDD solution for a few years yet.