So, in the end, it comes down to how much space you need, since you’ll still certainly pay more for the 4 TB drives, even if you also get more storage for the extra payment. This, however, brings us to an interesting question? Why go for the 3 TB Western Digital at all when you can get a 4 TB drive in the same space? Honestly, at about the same dollar-per-gigabyte cost as the nearest 4 TB equivalent, it’s not even “cheaper” (that’s assuming you get the same deal I did at $129.99 for the 3 TB drive street price is usually about $20 more). These aren't massive hard drives by any means, but they are each thicker than the standard 1 TB or 2 TB portable hard drives we may have gotten used to.
Not pictured here is the 4 TB Seagate Backup Slim, which is even a hair slimmer than the My Passport Ultra. The iPhone 5 is about half the thickness of the Western Digital 3 TB My Passport Ultra, which is just a hair smaller than the 4 TB Seagate Backup Fast. Seagate’s drives also have a slightly larger footprint for the most part, but at these numbers, who really cares? They’re all on the slightly thicker side, but still very portable and close enough in size to where you wouldn’t plan your packing any differently at all.
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Interestingly, Seagate’s relatively new single-drive 4TB Backup Plus Slim comes in as the thinnest drive at 20.5 milimeters. Its 20.96 millimeter thickness does, however, stay under that of Seagate’s dual-drive 4 TB Backup Plus Fast, which rises 22.35 mm above the desk. First Impressions and Context Within the MarketĪt first glance, the 3 TB My Passport Plus is a normal drive with a slightly thicker-than-standard appearance. Meanwhile, the 2 TB relatives have slimmed down quite a bit. But in the last few months, the market has witnessed a jump in storage capabilities, from the previously reviewed 2x2 TB RAID 0 drives by Seagate and Western Digital to the also new single-drive, not-quite-so-slim 4 TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim. The past couple years have allowed us to become accustomed to the standard 2 TB limit of portable, single-drive, bus-powered storage solutions.
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