Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage 500GB Portable Hard Drive Review

Test System

Before taking a look at the benchmarks, lets take a quick look at the test system used for this test. The test system is running an Intel i5-4690K processor on a Gigabyte Z97M Gaming-5 motherboard, pushing the processor to 4.4GHz. All testing was done using a fresh install of Windows 8.1 64-bit on a Samsung EVO 750GB SSD.

Intel Z97 Test Platform:

Intel LGA1050 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Core i5-4690K	Click Here
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z97MX Gaming-5	Click Here
Case	NZXT Razer H440	Click Here
Memory	Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3 1866MHz	Click Here
Video Card	eVGA GTX 970 SC	Click Here
Hard Drive	Samsung Evo 750GB SSD	Click Here
Storage Drive 2	Western Digital 3TB Red NAS	Click Here
Keyboard	Corsair K60	Click Here
Mouse	Thermaltake Level 10	Click Here
Power Supply	Thermaltake Smart M850W	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 8.1 64-Bit	Click Here

Mobile Devices:

As the Seagate Wireless drive is designed to be used for streaming to mobile devices, we will test it using the Samsung Note 4 (running Android 4.4.4), and two Samsung Galaxy S5 (running Android 5.0).

Seagate Wireless CrystalDiskInfo:

Let’s get to using the Seagate Wireless 500GB drive and seeing how well it streams video to multiple devices.