Seagate’s engineering name for this series of HDD is ‘Rosewood’. These ‘Rosewood’ disks are frequently found as portable external hard drives, and OEM branding includes the following: Seagate did not reveal any information concerning pricing of its new HDDs. While the product is unique because of its form-factor and capacity, its performance is lower compared to other HDDs. It will be very interesting to see how Seagate prices its new HDD, given its pros and cons. Related Reading

Our next benchmark is the web server profile, which is read-only, with transfer sizes ranging from 512bytes to 512KB. Once again, the Seagate drive outperformed the Samsung drive by almost 100MB/s. The platter surface degrades readily, resulting in bad sectors. Functions in the firmware attempt to reassign these. However, due to the large number of defects the firmware enters an inaccessible state. Seagate’s new Mobile HDD provides 2TB of storage in a 7mm form factor. During a time when SSD innovation leads the market for this form factor, this drive holds unique appeal for users whowant to upgrade their laptop storage without switching over. Although SSDs indisputably outperform HDDs, the Mobile HDD allows users to load up to 2TB of storage into their laptop at a fraction of the cost of an SSD.Are you experiencing problems with one of these disks? GET A FREE CONSULTATION NOW Repair of Seagate ST2000LM007 and ST1000LM035 Seagate did not disclose whether SMR platters used inside the Mobile HDD 2 TB are made in-house, or by Showa Denko K.K. (SDK), the world’s largest independent producer of hard drive platters.In addition to SMR technology, Seagate used its new mechanics, including new head, preamp, channel and other mechanisms for the Mobile HDD 2 TB HDD. Slimmed down mechanical components allowed Seagate to integrate two platters into a 7 mm hard drive.

The last profile looks at workstation activity, with a 20% write and 80% read mixture using 8K transfers. Although the Samsung Spinpoint HDD started out with a slightly better performance, the Seagate Mobile HDD was the top drive for the remainder of the benchmark. The Seagate Mobile HDD posted a stronger performance than the Samsung Spinpoint in our gaming trace. These results are somewhat validating for the Seagate Mobile HDD, considering that the Samsung Spinpoint was originally designed to serve primarily in this use case. The Seagate drives posted 26.7MB/s and 499 IOPS, with an average latency of 16.0ms. If you have a laptop that can accept two drives, that’s the ideal situation, because you can use a small SSD to install the OS and apps, and this drive for your data storage. Those with only a single drive have to make a judgement call, because for what this drive costs, they’ll only get a 512GB SSD or a quarter of the Seagate’s capacity. It comes down to how much data you need to carry around with you and if you’re willing to sacrifice high performance to have more. The Seagate Mobile HDD outperformed the Samsung Spinpoint in our random 2MB benchmark with 72MB/s read and 88MB/s write.Looking for dependable and secure data encryption? The Mobile HDD has Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and FIPS 140-2 SED models available in the same 7mm design. Device settings for USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_SanDisk&Prod_Cruzer_Blade&Rev_1.00\03001612031423215323&0 were not migrated from previous OS installation due to partial or ambiguous device match. And that’s the rub really, because while I’m sure we’d all like 2TB of lighting fast flash in our laptops, the ST2000LM007 is a singularly more affordable option. Editor's note: photos are of an engineering sample and the final product will have a different appearance Our final consumer synthetic benchmarks compare the drives in a series of mixed-server workloads with a queue depth of1 to 128. Each server profile has a strong bias towards read activity, ranging from 67% read with the database profile to 100% read in the web server profile.