The Seagate FireCuda X Vault 8TB, with its bus-powered USB-C design, is genuinely innovative, and it’s hard to see why this hasn’t been done before. It essentially makes the drive simpler with fewer cables, and while it's larger than a portable hard drive, it’s far cheaper for the capacity. After testing on a MacBook Pro M1 Max and an Asus PZ14, the single-drive design and ease of moving it around were obvious advantages over traditional desktop drives. While the performance was significantly slower than that of an SSD, it was consistent, especially for the capacity and price. In the benchmark
The perfect hard drive for video and photography? I tested the Seagate FireCuda X Vault and loved the large capacity and transfer rates… Swipe to scroll horizontally Row 0 - Cell 0 Row 0 - Cell 1 Row 0 - Cell 2 Value 8TB with bus-powered USB-C and excellent build quality 5 Design Gaming aesthetic but understated and stylish 4 Features Bus-powered USB-C is excellent; Seagate Toolkits backup being PC only is a shame. …
… As long as you stay within the 2600W output limit, there’s very little this power station struggles with. With a 3840Wh battery capacity, the Elite 400 starts to blur the line between portable power station and small home backup battery system. …
… On enabled machines, the two Daisy-Chained Thunderbolt 5 ports enable 30W of power delivery each, and the USB 20Gbps port offers 15W. Through the test, I connected portable drives and a CFexpress Type B card reader so that footage and files could be quickly offloaded to the system. …
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