Testing:

In order to test the Seagate GoFlex Turbo 750GB USB 3.0 hard drive, we connected it to the following base system:

» Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz processor
» ASUS P8P76 Rev 3.0 motherboard
» nVidia GeForce GTX 470 video card
» Micro Center G2 Series 64GB SSD
» Western Digital 1TB SATA 3Gbps hard drive
» Cooler Master EPS 12V 750 Watt power supply
» Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit operating system

We also used the following drives connected via a GoFlex USB 3.0 cable:

» Seagate GoFlex Ultra-Portable 500GB
» Western Digital 500GB (WD5000BEVT)

Real World File Transfer:

To kick off our testing, we'll look at some real world scenario testing. First, we copied our entire Office 2007 folder from a temp directory on our G2 Series SSD to the various drives three times. The folder contains 272 files and weighs in at 783MB. The results below are an average of those runs (with units of seconds, where lower is better). In this test, our GoFlex Turbo was the fastest to read the data from the drive and was right on par with the Western Digital drive for writes.

Read small files (lower times are better):



Write small files (lower times are better):