Image credit: TechRadar Final verdict Should Seagate have swapped the LM0007 for the LMZ15, a newer, potentially faster hard drive Maybe but then theres very little incentive to do so.

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It uses the same three-year-old drive as its predecessor, and doesnt bring much to the table, especially as it carries a much higher price tag although you do get bundled software in the form of Mylio Create and Adobe CC.

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Seagate Slim Portable Hard Disk

Reduced Price We check over 130 million products every day for the best prices View All Deals powered by Meet the Backup Plus Slim from Seagate, yet another portable hard disk drive that uses the tried and trusted ST2000LM007, a hard drive that was unleashed in the first quarter of 2016.

Image credit: TechRadar A special touch Seagate also sells a version of the Backup Plus Slim called the Ultra Touch.

The main differences between the two products are a higher price point for the Ultra Touch 90 at Amazon for the 2TB model, 70 for the 1TB and a different design that involves a piece of fabric in lieu of the brushed metal finish.

Design Theres nothing particularly noteworthy about the Backup Plus Slim its design is utilitarian and certainly isnt trying to win any awards.

Seagate opted for a plastic chassis with a thin brushed metal cover on top.

Other than the Seagate logo and a white status light, theres hardly anything that catches the eye here.

As for its size, the Backup Plus Slim is absolutely tiny at 115 x 78 x 12mm with a weight of only 126g, meaning you can truly carry it around in your pocket.

There doesnt seem to be any easy way to pry open the case should you want to extract the hard disk drive.

It comes with a 46cm USB 3.0 cable with an additional cap that converts one end to a USB Type-C connector.

Performance Benchmarks Heres how the Seagate Backup Plus Slim performed in our benchmark tests: CrystalDiskMark: 141MBps (read); 137MBps (write) Atto: 144MBps (read, 256mb); 137MBps (write, 256mb) This product uses the old ST2000LM007 drive, as we mentioned, a disk which has two 1TB platters spinning at 5,400 RPM with 128MB cache.

Surprisingly, though, that drive costs more on its own than when packaged as the Backup Plus Slim.

It is a slightly-better-than-average performer as shown in our CrystalDiskMark and Atto benchmarks.

The Backup Plus Slim scored between 141 and 144MBps on reads and around 137MBps on write speeds, while a 10GB file was transferred at 128MBps.

The drive comes with the brand new Mylio photo management software and a two-month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, but no storage applications like, say, the WD My Passport Ultra range.

Thats great if you have any inclination towards the creative side of computing, but not so great if you only want quality storage on the cheap (the drive comes with a two-year warranty, by the way).

Image credit: TechRadar The competition While Seagate doesnt have any competition for its 5TB portable hard drive, things are radically different for lower capacity products, not least from Seagates older models.

The older Backup Plus Slim, for example, costs 45 and 60 for the 1TB and 2TB models respectively.

The Expansion range, another Seagate line, is equally competitive at 40 and 65 for the same capacities respectively (note: all quoted prices are from Amazon.com, and correct at the time of writing).

Western Digital and Toshiba prices are slightly more expensive.

A special mention must be given to Silicon Power, which offers a 4TB external hard disk drive thats shockproof and waterproof at 110 as cheap as the new Backup Plus Slim.

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