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07-15-2020, 12:54 PM
Seagate's BarraCuda Fast SSD lives up to its name, but only if you're talking about external USB storage with SATA drives inside from a couple of years ago. Most vendors have moved on to NVMe internals, to take advantage of the doubled bandwidth SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps offers.Â-
That wouldn't be a big deal if the BarraCuda Fast SSD were cheaper, but it's priced nearly the same as NVMe drives such as the Samsung T7 (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3519188/samsung-portable-ssd-t7-touch-review.html).
This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best SSDs (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3234838/best-ssds.html). Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them.
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That wouldn't be a big deal if the BarraCuda Fast SSD were cheaper, but it's priced nearly the same as NVMe drives such as the Samsung T7 (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3519188/samsung-portable-ssd-t7-touch-review.html).
This review is part of our ongoing roundup of the best SSDs (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3234838/best-ssds.html). Go there for information on competing products and how we tested them.
To read this article in full, please click here (https://cdmagurus.com/article/3562737/seagate-barracuda-fast-ssd-review.html#jump)
More... (https://www.pcworld.com/article/3562737/seagate-barracuda-fast-ssd-review.html#tk.rss_all)