Ticket to the world of USB 3.0, cheap
Despite the fact that portable hard drives have been replaced by almost all kinds of network services, sometimes you want to take and “save” all the most important things so that it lies somewhere near by. Well, either download a movie car from the tracker and connect the disk to the media player, so that you can watch the video for a month without getting up from the sofa. Well, or ... yes, what am I telling - you already know everything yourself. So I had a need for an external storage device with USB 3.0 interface - under the cut I share my impressions of one of the devices.
Included with the hard disk (the name of which, according to the documents, Kingmax KE-71 ) lay only a paper instruction, a connecting Y-shaped wire and a rather coarse cover with a roll “under the skin”.
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But on the other hand, it is necessary except to preserve the original appearance of the device, so what's the difference, what's behind the cover - it’s good that it exists at all. And the main thing in the hard disk is the speed of work.
The appearance of the drive is quite common for this class of devices - there are no “raisins” in it. If you do not take for her decor on the top cover - a silver ring on top of a black plastic. Why it is and why it is so is incomprehensible; Apparently, a designer find.
The size of the device is dictated by the hard disk installed inside - it is a little more than a pack of harmful cigarettes.
Next to the ring is a matte LED that displays the status of the device (it is dim blue during operation). Beside it is the only USB connector:
Immediately after connecting, the disk becomes visible in the system - 465 gigabytes with the NTFS file system is available to the user:
I took the performance indicators from the recently updated HD Tune Pro 5.0 utility:
Reading:
To test the write speed, I had to delete the partition from the device:
Not that I am very surprised by the results, but they are quite good for USB connection - I have already managed to evaluate the difference in speed when transferring data (compared to the old USB 2.0 drive) from a working laptop to a home computer.
After all the tests, the disc warmed up to 40 degrees.
It was interesting to get inside the drive - evaluate the design of the box, look at the device board, admire the disk itself. The top cover (the one with the ring) is literally separated with a fingernail (or flat screwdriver), but, apparently, only once.
The fact is that along the perimeter of the lid there are thin plastic loops that break after the first dismantling - I swear, I didn’t want evil =) But now I understood what the cover comes with - the device is not splitting only because of it I did not cover.
Inside is the most common 2.5-inch drive from Western Digital (500GB Scorpio Blue WD5000BPVT ), which has a spindle speed of 5400 revolutions. No anti-vibration pads, but even without them, the disc is pretty quiet.
The speed performance of this disk from WD with a normal connection is higher ( read / write ), and considering that the USB 3.0 capabilities are still far away, I conclude that the speed cuts the “padding” between the disk and the USB connector. Actually, this little handkerchief (about which I really have nothing to tell) and reveals the “all” charms of the USB 3.0 interface:
That's all - separate some pros and cons, I will not. This post is just an illustration of what modern disks are like - now you have something to compare with.
I forgot to say that the cost of the device a week before the publication of the article was 2,200 rubles, which is one and a half thousand less than the current cost of the disk installed inside. Unfortunately, the disk is now gone from the Yandex.Market shelves, but if you wish, you can always find it on sale by model name.
If you are looking for an external drive for a modern interface - the option from the review is quite suitable as a solution, otherwise - this is nothing more than a primitive box for a regular hard drive.
Included with the hard disk (the name of which, according to the documents, Kingmax KE-71 ) lay only a paper instruction, a connecting Y-shaped wire and a rather coarse cover with a roll “under the skin”.
')
But on the other hand, it is necessary except to preserve the original appearance of the device, so what's the difference, what's behind the cover - it’s good that it exists at all. And the main thing in the hard disk is the speed of work.
The appearance of the drive is quite common for this class of devices - there are no “raisins” in it. If you do not take for her decor on the top cover - a silver ring on top of a black plastic. Why it is and why it is so is incomprehensible; Apparently, a designer find.
The size of the device is dictated by the hard disk installed inside - it is a little more than a pack of harmful cigarettes.
Next to the ring is a matte LED that displays the status of the device (it is dim blue during operation). Beside it is the only USB connector:
Immediately after connecting, the disk becomes visible in the system - 465 gigabytes with the NTFS file system is available to the user:
I took the performance indicators from the recently updated HD Tune Pro 5.0 utility:
Reading:
To test the write speed, I had to delete the partition from the device:
Not that I am very surprised by the results, but they are quite good for USB connection - I have already managed to evaluate the difference in speed when transferring data (compared to the old USB 2.0 drive) from a working laptop to a home computer.
After all the tests, the disc warmed up to 40 degrees.
It was interesting to get inside the drive - evaluate the design of the box, look at the device board, admire the disk itself. The top cover (the one with the ring) is literally separated with a fingernail (or flat screwdriver), but, apparently, only once.
The fact is that along the perimeter of the lid there are thin plastic loops that break after the first dismantling - I swear, I didn’t want evil =) But now I understood what the cover comes with - the device is not splitting only because of it I did not cover.
Inside is the most common 2.5-inch drive from Western Digital (500GB Scorpio Blue WD5000BPVT ), which has a spindle speed of 5400 revolutions. No anti-vibration pads, but even without them, the disc is pretty quiet.
The speed performance of this disk from WD with a normal connection is higher ( read / write ), and considering that the USB 3.0 capabilities are still far away, I conclude that the speed cuts the “padding” between the disk and the USB connector. Actually, this little handkerchief (about which I really have nothing to tell) and reveals the “all” charms of the USB 3.0 interface:
That's all - separate some pros and cons, I will not. This post is just an illustration of what modern disks are like - now you have something to compare with.
I forgot to say that the cost of the device a week before the publication of the article was 2,200 rubles, which is one and a half thousand less than the current cost of the disk installed inside. Unfortunately, the disk is now gone from the Yandex.Market shelves, but if you wish, you can always find it on sale by model name.
Conclusion
If you are looking for an external drive for a modern interface - the option from the review is quite suitable as a solution, otherwise - this is nothing more than a primitive box for a regular hard drive.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/133011/
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