Monday, December 21, 2009

WD160G portable hard drive evaluation-5



Mobile hard disk on the market today is very prevalent, but the WD Passport portable hard drive 160G is still impressive to people, whether it is elegant and stylish appearance, or are all light and portable size makes long, deep aftertaste.
In particular, after testing this mobile hard disk to play a very stable, with almost perfect performance in the completion of this Pacific journey. And that the mobile hard drive also comes with powerful management software, are quite rich. But unfortunately the management software to send the sample inside the test does not provide Chinese language interface, manufacturers will be introduced after the launch of the retail version of the corresponding Chinese version. In terms of price, this WD Passport portable hard drive 160G media offer 1,699 yuan, price category compared to the general non-original mobile hard disk is slightly high, but considering that it has just been listed at the same time is specifically developed for mobile nature a set of complete solutions for business, office as well as a higher-quality requirements of mobile users is still a good personal choice

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Evaluation platform, we use a more mainstream Intel E2140 processor, with an excellent stability of the Biostar TP35D2-A7 motherboard for the ICH9 Southbridge to provide up to 12 USB2.0 interface. 512M DDR2 667 memory composed of two dual-channel 1GB capacity. Test items of software, primarily using the PCMark05 hard drive built-in HDD tests, SiSoftsandra 2005 file system tests, and well-known disk-testing two versions of the software HD Tach tests. Here we look at the The WD Passport 160G portable hard drive test scores.

Futuremark PCMark 05 HDD test scores

Futuremark PCMark 05 HDD score details

XP Startup - Start Windows XP system, the whole process including the 90% reading and 10% write operations.

Application Loading - This action, including the opening and closing are many programs: Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Reader 5, Windows Media Player, 3DMark2001SE, Leadtek Winfast DVD, Mozilla Internet Browser, the whole process including the 83% reading and 17% write operations.

General Hard Disk Driver Usage - includes a series of daily operations (60% reading and 40% write):
* Open the Word document checking syntax errors, and then save close
* Compress and decompress the file using Winzip
* Encrypt and decrypt files using PowerCrypt
Using F-Secure Antivirus * Anti-drug
* Winamp player with MP3 and WMV files
* To use Windows Media Player Play DivX, and WMV video files
* With the Windows plug-in to browse pictures
* To use IE to browse the Internet
* Load, run and then quit the game

Virus Scan - a total capacity of 600MB on the pile of documents check narcotics, check narcotics test 99.5% for the read operation.

File Write - writes a hard disk size of 680MB files, just write and does not contain any read operation.

Futuremark PCMark 05 tests in the next, WD Passport portable hard drive 160G compare the performance unsatisfactory. The results for the 5400RPM mobile hard drives is very good. All the details of the performance is very prominent. See WD Passport portable hard drive 160G hard enough to meet people in their lives in the schedule storage and moving needs.


HD Tach 2.51 test scores

In HD Tach 2.51 of the evaluation project, WD Passport portable hard drive 160G of the seek time of 17.7ms, average read speed of 26.7MB / s, CPU occupancy rate was only 11.0%.


HD Tach 3.0.1.0 Test Results

In HD Tach 3.0.1.0 of the evaluation project, WD Passport portable hard drive 160G of the seek time of 17.8ms, average read speed of 32.8MB / s. Although the results can not and IDE hard drives, SATA hard drive with a USB2.0 interface, but for mobile hard disk to be selected is already very good.


SISoftware Sandra 2005 test scores

Although in comparison with the SATA interface, 3.5 hard drive is obviously the next in the wind, but the WD Passport portable hard drive 160G achievement is still impressive, reaching 29 MB / S transfer rate. This achievement, compared with the previous tests are basically the same, showing that this WD portable hard drive performance still remain relatively stable.

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This hard drive careful observation, details of WD is still doing well in the mobile hard drive out of the corner of the design there is a circle, this circle power in the mobile hard disk will be issued after the blue light, very beautiful and gorgeous. WD can be seen in the details of the design is also the same profession.
The back of the hard disk using the four anti-slip mat corner on the back, and did not use piano but the use of a frosted handle.
The WD portable mobile hard disk, the volume is very small, just larger than the palm of your hand, but also very light in my hand. Very suitable for carrying.
The hard drive is only designed a USB interface, but rather "hidden." Gelatinous material will be the hidden USB connector cover on the inside, is not only very beautiful but also seal well, you can play a dust-proof, splash-proof and so do use, really kill two birds with
Open the product description, content description is very rich, and easy to understand the role of mobile hard disk is to use materials most commonly used data is stored. WD HDD in order to quantify this in the form of an indication of the hard disk can store approximately how many pictures, how many films, TV series, as well as the number of sets the number of songs. For the capacity of a vague understanding of consumers, the design of considerable humanity. As WD latest high-end fashion products, in addition to its beautiful appearance in addition, technically very comprehensive. It can be seen from the description of the hard drive is equipped with high-speed 5400RPM hard drives and full-speed USB 2.0 interface. Now I am on the right application of this mobile hard disk in a simple test to see how this drive's performance in the end?

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First open the package, which seems to be relatively simple, a detailed product description and a USB cable, and nothing more fully demonstrate WD HDD smart portability and simple to use features. Which the appearance of mobile hard disk point of view, black piano as the greatest selling point, the appearance did not seem to use bulky cube design, instead of using a non-symmetrical diamond-shaped design, all-black appearance of the surface of the mobile hard disk marked with the "WD" words, using frosted treatment, looks very noble and generous, full beauty. Inside with a 2.5-inch 160G-capacity hard drive, the weight of even less than 110 grams, the volume is also very small, easy to carry us, we can say is a truly portable mobile hard disk.

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Portable hard disk storage device as the most important one, in the mobile space which plays a very important role. Large amounts of data essential to our daily life through the hard disk to store, which is in the portable mobile hard disk inside the role of the prominent areas. With the continuous development of the global digital and personal application of a broad-based, people need the hard drive is not only confined to the desktop level, external and portable hard drives even more by people of all ages. Mobile hard disk data movement not only meet the needs of people, but also can be more convenient to carry. So that people on the capacity demands for bigger and bigger. Then more hard drive manufacturers have already started to join the ranks of the production of portable storage hard drive.

WD is the world's largest hard disk manufacturers, faced with a number after the hard market will be fully shuffling, WD continues to drive the growth of the world, one of the three shows that the strength of WD can not be overlooked. Since early April this year, announced that its 2.5-inch WD brand Passport series of external hard drives since the Chinese market, marking the WD brand external hard drive product line began formal participation in the war Chinese mobile hard disk market. While entering the Chinese market will not be long, WD Chinese team Quedui own brand products have full confidence in external, whether from design concept, functional performance, data protection, capacity requirements, and all aspects of after sales service. WD have been well prepared to enter the Chinese market.

Recently, we have received PConline evaluation rooms WD sent from the measured WD Passport portable hard drive 160G, the WD portable mobile hard disk drive for the representatives of one of the products not only to design stylish and compact, very lightweight, using a USB2.0 full-speed interface design. Let us first look at the true colors of this mobile hard disk!
The WD Passport portable hard drive 160G on the packaging gives us a sense of nobility, from the front of the box we can clearly see the hard drive capacity. But also in the box above, also marked the latest ROHS environmental protection certification logo, you can recycle. WD can be seen in the environmental design is very hard, enough to see the WD designed a human face.
In the back of the box which clearly set out the basic information to move the hard disk and product brief. As a new portable products, in addition to its Windows XP and MAC compatible, the ability to support Microsoft's latest operating system VISIA. For consumers to purchase all of the operating system after the elimination of concerns about compatibility

Small-size high-capacity: Seagate 5GB 100GB portable hard drive

5GB of the Pocket Hard Drive diameter of 3 inches (7.6 cm) in order to facilitate into a pocket or out on the involvement of type using USB cable. In addition, in order to ensure stability when placed on the table, under the fixed rubber.

The product is the speed of 3600rpm. Is equipped with 2MB cache. With protection of data security, management of information content, as well as password-protected software. Pocket Hard Drive can be stored up to 80 hours of MP3 files up to 2000 photos or up to 5 million pixels 4.5 hours of digital video. The product has begun shipping a suggested retail price of 199 U.S. dollars.

Another new product External Hard Drive storage capacity of 100GB, weighs about 450 grams. That can be used to reduce operating noise, the fluid bearing motors.
The product uses a speed of 5400rpm 2.5-inch hard drive. Is equipped with 8MB cache, incidental to protect data and ensure the safety of software. External Hard Drive can be saved over 1,600 hours of MP3 files, 40000 500 megapixel photos, 100 hours of digital video, as well as 140 sets of the game. The suggested retail price of 279 U.S. dollars.