“Why does this drive, the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus FAST has a transfer rate (220mb/s) slower than the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim (up to 4.8Gb/s)?”

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• The 4.8 Gb/s is the maximum transfer rate of USB3, NOT the transfer rate of the drive. The 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim has a transfer rate of 120 MB/s, and the FAST has 220 MB/s, because the FAST has two drives in one enclosure and uses RAID 0 to spread your data across the two drives, making access faster.

  Answered by Simon 9 years ago

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• Because it is slower.

  Answered by johnjah 9 years ago

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