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This could have explained why it was consistently slower than the Seagate Backup Plus. Upon further investigation, we found that the drives in the My Passport Pro actually spun slower at 5200rpm instead of the more common 5400rpm. That said, we were interested to find out why the Western Digital My Passport Pro was considerably slower. This goes to show that for mechanical hard disk drives, even in faster RAID 0 configuration, the USB 3.0 interface provides more than sufficient bandwidth. In our file transfer timing test, it was about 18 seconds or 20% faster, which is significant.

Looking at the graphs for AJA System Test and Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, it is clear that the Seagate Backup Plus Fast was the quicker drive, by around 10% to 15% overall. We added results from the Western Digital My Passport Slim, winner of our Tech Awards 2014 Best 2.5-Inch Portable External HDD category to act as a baseline reference. To complement the benchmarks, we will also be conducting a timed run to see how long it takes to transfer around 15GB worth of videos, music, and photos. Our MacBook Pro has the following specifications:Īs a result, we also turned to new benchmarks to evaluate the drives since our usual benchmarks do not run in nor have a Mac equivalent. Since the My Passport Pro was designed for use with Macs, we used a Late 2013 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display as our test system.

Seagate backup plus ultra slim thunderbolt