Testing is performed on Windows 10 64-bit running on a Core i7-5820K/Asus X99 Deluxe system with four 16GB Kingston 2666MHz DDR4 modules, a Zotac (Nvidia) GT 710 1GB x2 PCIe graphics card, and an Asmedia ASM2142 USB 3.1 Gen 2 (10Gbps) card.
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The SanDisk Extreme Portable Pro SSD is easily the fastest of three. Note that the Samsung T7 will slow down quite a bit when its cache runs out, but for most purposes, it’s significantly faster. The BarraCuda Fast holds its own against SATA-based drives, but can’t hold a candle to NMVe-based SSDs such as the Extreme Portable Pro SSD and Samsung T7 (though the latter slows down quite a bit on long copies). Twice the performance for another $10? Yup. The graphic below shows just how much faster in everyday use the competition is. However, there’s that pricing issue again-much faster NVMe-based USB SSDs, such as the SanDisk Extreme Portable Pro SSD and Samsung T7, cost only a little more. The BarraCuda Fast is a very good performer for a SATA-based drive, but so is the T5. Writing 450GB it was more than a minute faster than the Samsung T5. Where the BarraCuda Fast excelled was in endurance. The BarraCuda Fast also played second fiddle to the T5 in the 48GB tests (above), but cut over a minute off of the T5’s 450GB copy time as shown below. The BarraCuda Fast largely held its own agains the Samsung T5. Longer bars are better.Īs you can see above, CrystalDiskMark gave the BarraCuda Fast a nice edge in write performance, and a statistically irrelevant deficit in reading. IDGĬrystalDiskMark 6 pegs the BarraCuda as a faster writer, but slower reader, than the Samsung T5. The results were so close, however, that performance really shouldn’t be the deciding factor. It’s speedy, though not quite as speedy as Samsung’s three year-old T5. The BarraCuda Fast SSD lives up to the second part of its name-within the limits (around 550Mbps) of its SATA internals. Alas, it won’t allow you to change the color of the LED as you can with the Seagate Gaming SSD. The drive ships with the Seagate Toolkit software, which is handy for syncing data to the drive. Habits vary, but I would’ve put the port on the other end, or the side. If your cable orients the drive in the wrong direction, you can't see the friendly Kermit-like lighting. One design detail surprised me: The Type-C port is located on the same end of the drive as the thin, green LED band.
Seagate doesn’t provide a TBW (TeraBytes that can be Written) rating, however, for the normal user, that shouldn’t be a concern. As mentioned, the drive technology is SATA, not NVMe, as with some of the only slightly pricier competition. As mentioned, the USB is SuperSpeed 10Gbps. It’s billed as a USB-C drive, which tells you nothing other than it sports Type-C connector. The BarraCuda Fast SSD is available in three capacities: 500GB ( $110 on Amazon Remove non-product link), the 1GB size we tested ( $180 on Amazon), and 2TB ( $350 on Amazon Remove non-product link), respectively.
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