Samsung S1 Mini 1.8" External HDD Review

Page 3 - Tests

Comfortability

Samsung S1 Mini is really small and light. Very handy to carry around and the short USB in the bundle even further improves its ease of use at any given place. As a minus the lack of carrying pouch could be mentioned.

Software

The bundle includes 3 software products. It is a standard nowadays to receive them licensed along with the hardware that intends to use them. In this case we got software for back-up, another for data encryption and third one for creating hidden and protected volumes.

Temperature

After prolonged moving of large files we managed to warm up the drive. As whole temperatures reached were not that high, still the case being completely made from plastic the temperature drop is much longer. In general it performs well and metal parts in the case are not needed, though their availability would only be beneficial.

Performance

For comparison we used the following devices:

• Samsung S1 Mini;
• WD My Passport Essential Portable;
• Revoltec Alu Book II + Western Digital Raptor 360ADFD, 10k rpm, SATA 1 ;
• Revoltec Alu Book II + Maxtor 6V250F0, 7200 rpm, SATA 2;
• Vizo Luxon Advanced + Samsung HD642JJ, 7200 rpm, 16M, SATA 2 ;
• Cyber Snipa Dog Tag flash drive, 4GB;
• PQI Intelligent Stick, 1GB;
• CBM Flash Disk, 2GB.

As the results show, as far as speed is concerned, Samsung S1 Mini holds no ground compared to its bigger "brothers", but still it's not all that far behind. As for access time – quite predictable – a tad worse than other hard drives, while the flash drives are indeed the undisputed winners.