Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch STHH100 (2018) vs Adata HD830 Series External Hard Drives

The Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch STHH400 2TB has managed to impress reviewers from some of the most highly trusted sources on the internet, including Digital Camera World and PCmag. It performed great in their in-depth hands-on roundups - it was awarded the "Ranked 1 out of 12" title by Digital Camera World and "Ranked 1 out of 6" by PCmag in their respective External Hard Drive roundups. That's high praise, especially when coming from such high-quality sources.

As for the Adata HD830 2TB, it wasn't able to earn a top spot in any roundups from trusted sources that conduct their own hands-on testing. Nevertheless, it managed to impress reviewers at MakeUseOf, PCmag, camerajabber.com, and Techradar enough to make it onto their respective shortlists.

We examined all of the review data that we could find and first took a look at sources that reviewed both of them, like PCmag, and found that they haven't shown a preference for either product.

Then we checked which sources liked these two External Hard Drives best and found that the Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch STHH400 2TB got its highest, 8, review score from reviewers at PCWorld, whereas the Adata HD830 2TB earned its best score of 8 from camerajabber.com.