Raise a hand if you've heard of Seagate? Most of you? Fair enough. Most well known for their wide array of internal hard drives, ranging from your standard 1TB 7200rpm affair, all the way to full enterprise-grade NAS/Surveillance drives in the Ironwolf/Skyhawk range, Seagate has also started to expand in the SSD space. If you'll just allow me a small moment of praise, here, I really do like the product line names and visuals Seagate use for their HDDs. There is something highly appealing about it, and that isn't a praise that regularly gets leveled at a normally fairly boring part of your PC. Anyway. Seagate is now offering a 2.5'' flash version of their venerable Barracuda drive, with specs exactly as you'd expect. 3D TLC memory and speeds of up to 560/540 MB/s read/write. This is an entirely standard affair in 2018, and should be expected of even a regular grade SSD. What still isn't so common, however, is the wide adoption of external SSDs. When most of us think of external storage, we think of a little 2.5'' 'box' that houses a regular mechanical hard drive. Seagate do them. Western Digital do them. They're often bundled with some form of backup software, as well as options of additional security (e.g. drive unlock via passkey), and so on.

Who is this targeted at? I would say, realistically, the creative professional who needs on the go storage. Those large projects in FCPX/Premiere, or Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop? What about CAD? All, in my mind, are perfect targets for this product. An average edited photo that I take/edit for the purposes of reviews can be as large as 17mb with post-processing applied. Multiply that by a fair bit for someone who works with larger/more complex projects, and multiple, and suddenly you have a very large local folder that really could do with being stored elsewhere. Trouble is, you don't want to wait hours for it to transfer back over? Enter the 1TB 'Fast SSD' from Seagate... though it must be said, points are certainly not going their way for creativity on the naming scheme.