Introducing - Silicon Power Stream S10

Silicon Power USB 3.0 storage devices were the first to appear on the shelves of domestic stores. In the first round came the simpler pieces, which, in addition to having a new interface, knew nothing interesting, and were externally identical to their predecessors, which still used the previous USB generation. They were followed by the more interesting pieces, which were water, dust and shock resistant, some of which could withstand quite an extreme load, perhaps they remembered what we had gone through by car.

The time has come for January this year, when the first family specifically developed for USB 3.0 was able to head to retailers. These drives will no longer externally cite 2.0 times.

What will be new in them then? Clearly, after the internal renewal, the hard drives will get new ridicule from the outside as well. As in all cases, we now state that judging whether change is good or bad in this area is not dissected, since the definition of its external beauty is made to our liking, and is therefore highly subjective. What we can do is try to take nice pictures so that you too can decide whether you like it or not.

Let’s take a quick look at the new Silicon Power external drive, which was christened Stream S10!

First of all, it is important to note that Silicon Power continues its well-established practice, which means that even though we are looking for special solutions for the first member of the family, we will not find one. This is bad on the one hand because a poor article writer has a harder time doing it, and on the other hand it is good because the buyer gets a device with a new interface and a respectable storage space at the lowest possible price.

The S10 is thus the introduction to the new series. As we wrote above, the interior isn’t suspiciously changed, so we don’t expect a change in speed either. As described in several of our articles, small, i.e. 2,5-inch drives, are still rare in speeds that would fit the USB 3.0 interface. For this reason, it is often in vain to expect data transmission to be close to the theoretical bandwidth of the new standard.

To prove this, and because we were curious about what the structure looks like inside, we disassembled it. What was already certain from the outside was that the drive was given a completely plastic cover, though quite a design. The point inside the enclosure is the hard drive, which in our case is one SamsungPiece marked HM641JI. According to the factory description, this is certainly a SATA 3 Gb / s piece, although it has only 5400 rpm, and the capacity is 640 GB. As we have not dissected the devices we have had so far, we do not know what storage was used in them, so we are curiously waiting for the results of the measurements! If you want to see the factory data of the hard disk with your own eyes, click HERE:http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?type=94&subtype=99&model_cd=514#