Iomega 256 GB SuperSpeed SSD Review
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| Iomega 256 GB SuperSpeed External SSD Review |
With write speeds up to twice as fast as 7200 RPM SATA hard
drives, the new Iomega SSD Flash Drive has maximum USB 3.0 transfer speeds for
HD media
The Iomega External Flash SSD came in at the bottom of the
productivity trace, but the fact that it only performed slightly under the
Intel X25-V connected through native SATA is very impressive. While the USB 3.0
interface certainly have an effect on the peak transfer speeds of this drive,
it didn’t seem to hold back the random I/O traffic that our Productivity trace
is based heavily on.
Our third real-life test covers disk activity in a gaming
environment. Unlike the HTPC or Productivity trace, this one relies heavily on
the read performance of a drive. To give a simple breakdown of read/write
percentages, the HTPC test is 64% write, 36% read, the Productivity test is 59%
write and 41% read, while the gaming trace is 6% write and 94% read. The test
consists of a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit system pre-configured with Steam, with
Grand Theft Auto 4, Left 4 Dead 2, and Mass Effect 2 already downloaded and
installed. The trace captures the heavy read activity of each game loading from
the start, as well as textures as the game progresses. In this trace we
recorded 426MB being written to the drive and 7,235MB being read.
In our HTPC trace the External Flash SSD came in second to
last, this time outperforming the Intel Value SSD. With an average transfer
speed of 70MB/s this drive could easily handle video editing or other large
file transfer activities on the go.
Our second real-life test covers disk activity in a
productivity scenario. For all intents and purposes this test shows drive
performance under normal daily activity for most users. This test includes: a
three hour period operating in an office productivity environment with 32-bit
Vista running Outlook 2007 connected to an Exchange server, web browsing using
Chrome and IE8, editing files within Office 2007, viewing PDFs in Adobe Reader,
and an hour of local music playback with two hours of additional online music
via Pandora. In this trace we recorded 4,830MB being written to the drive and
2,758MB being read.
Specifications:
- NAND Flash Type— MLC
- Max Read— up to 265MB/s
- Max Write— up to 215MB/s
- Data Transfer Rates— USB 3.0 up to 5 Gbits/s
- MTBF— 1.2 Million Hours
- Hardware Encryption— 256-Bit AES Encrypted Storage Controller
What You Get:
- 256 GB Iomega Solid State Drive
- USB 3.0/2.0 "Y" Power Cable
- Quick Install Guide
- HTML User Manual and Help Files
- Iomega Protection Suite software license included, software via download (PC only)
- Trend Micro Internet Security - 1 year Free via download
- Iomega Three year limited warranty with product registration
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