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Motherboard: ASUS Z170 Premium - Buy from Amazon.Overall, this solution is the one you want if you are in the market for an ultra-portable unit at the 2TB capacity. With that said, I was able to get 138 MB/s read out of this unit while write speeds came only slightly lower at 113 MB/s. As I stated above, we have nearly three years of drives in our charts at this point, and this latest solution is very close to being the quickest portable HDD based unit I have tested. The performance was on par and even exceeded the sequential performance of previous drives. Build quality is top notch and with the bonus of 200GB of cloud storage, it certainly makes this solution even more enticing. With 2TB of capacity and not sacrificing any performance, this solution is fit for even the enthusiast that wants to take data with them on the go. The Backup Plus Ultra Slim is leading the next generation of ultra-portable solutions. With that kind of performance and a rather decent price per GB, Seagate has setup the Ultra Slim to take the second spot in our chart at 97.24%.
