All told this hard drive is likely smaller than your phone, and at 4.8 ounces it probably weighs a little less too. The other dimensions are standard: 4.47 inches long, 2.99 inches wide, which is about the size of every portable drive on the market at this point. 49 inches thick, by way of comparison, and that was about the thinnest device on the market until now. The already-thin Western Digital My Passport Slim is. 38 inches thick, which is downright tiny for a mechanical hard drive in an enclosure. Seagate calls this an “ultra slim” drive, and that’s not an exaggeration. None of the material feels tough, but it does the job well enough.Ĭan a hard drive be cute? Because this thing is tiny, and has dimples. The bottom and the sides, meanwhile, are a single piece of lightweight plastic. Not much breaks this pattern up, save for an indicator light and a logo in opposite corner dimples. The metal plate on top, available in silver and gold color aluminum, is covered in an alternating series of indented bubbles. Slim and sturdyĪre we allowed to call a hard drive cute? Because this thing is tiny, and has dimples.

Is the company right? We grabbed a 2TB silver model to find out. There are cheaper drives with the same amount of storage, but Seagate is hoping the drive’s form factor and design will help make up the difference. Seagate’s new Ultra Slim line shows just how dense data storage can be, and does so at a reasonable price - a mere $100 for 2TB, and $70 for 1TB. And they’ve become small enough to fit in your pocket. A decade ago, most people had never heard of a terabyte.

It is staggering how fast hard drive storage is evolving.

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