Transcend 2.5” Portable Hard Disk Drive Review

X-bit labs takes a look at Transcend’s portable, external 40GB HDD with USB 2.0 interface:

Need to move a lot of data around? Then you might want to consider buying an external HDD. We will test one of the external 2.5" storage solutions available in the today’s market: the cute and light Portable Hard Disk from Transcend. Read more about the performance of this 40GB model in our new review! Wide spreading of USB 2.0 interface turned out a new stimulus for the manufacturers who started developing new solutions trying to win their spot under the sun. We can already buy new models of external 2.5” HDDs, which can work in Hi-Speed USB mode. Today we decided to test one of those solutions developed by Transcend Company. For a more illustrative and interesting test session we will also test one more solution, which we have already introduced to you in our article called Data Storing and Moving: Choose the Best Portable Device Now!. This time, however, we will run an extensive set of tests.

. . . Transcend Company released a very nice-looking and easy-to-use product. But this is where I should end the list of its advantages. Portable Hard Disk has no trumps against Storage Kingdom Easyharddisk. To tell the truth, this is a very mild wording for the performance gap we all have just seem during the results discussion. It is probably the outdated 2.5” drive, which is used inside Transcend’s solution that determines such poor results. Keeping in mind that both these models are now selling at almost the same price, $209, the product from Transcend has simply not a single chance to win the competition. Storage Kingdom Easyharddisk drive turns out much more attractive from all considered viewpoints. I don’t think it makes sense to pay the same money for a solution with definitely poorer characteristics. Of course, Portable Hard Disk will be purchased by those user’s who are guided by some formal reasons when making a buying decision, but it will never be demanded by the users who care not only about the name, interface and storage capacity.

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