Software and Performance Testing

Included on the drive is a copy of Iomega Encryption Utility that utilizes AES 256-bit hardware encryption, which lets you countersign protect the drive to proceed snooping eyes off your information. The software works every bit advertised and is like shooting fish in a barrel to use, although it appears that whoever wrote the copy for the software isn't a native English speaker.

Besides that minor gripe, at that place is one issue with the arranged encryption software: it boots as a virtual optical bulldoze when you plug the eGo into your calculator and there is seemingly no way to remove it. If you program to utilize the software, this indicate is moot. But if you despise a company forcing software down your throat, it'll certainly become an issue. Certain, you can disable autorun in Windows, but that could be an inconvenience if yous happen to rely on the feature frequently.

Personally, this didn't bother me besides much, simply while checking out some user reviews around the net it appeared to be the most prominent complaint among owners of the bulldoze.

Iomega as well includes access to its Protection Suite software. The suite includes a 12 calendar month subscription to Trend Micro Internet Security for PC or Tendency Micro Smart Surfing for Mac, Roxio Hindsight Express backup software, MozyHome Online Backup service (2GB for free), Iomega QuikProtect backup software and v.Clone, a arrangement imaging programme. To download any of these programs, go to Iomega's download page and enter your email address with the serial number from your eGo.

I tested the Iomega eGo using the following hardware:

  • Intel Cadre i5 661 Processor
  • EVGA H55 Motherboard
  • Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3 2x 2GB
  • 64GB Western Digital SiliconEdge Blue SSD
  • StarTech USB iii.0 PCI-Eastward Adapter
  • Zalman HD 503 HTPC Example
  • Seasonic SS-460 X-Serial 460w PSU
  • Windows 7 Home Premium

For benchmarking purposes, I used CrystalDiskMark 3.0, ATTO Disk Benchmark and SiSoft Sandra's Physical Disks test.

A real-world file transfer examination was as well performed, similar to the one nosotros commonly run on our notebook reviews. Nosotros used two different sets of files for the file transfer test. The showtime had 557 small MP3s that totaled 2.56GB, and the second was a single two.52GB .rar file. The test consists of simply copying the files from the calculator to the USB 3.0 enclosure and dorsum, measuring how long the process takes on each.

Results from our testing can be found beneath.

Benchmark Results

USB ii.0 USB 3.0
CrystalDiskMark 3.0 Read Write Read Write
Sequential 34.23 MB/due south xxx.13 MB/s 97.80 MB/s 90.17 MB/s
512K 21.17 MB/s 29.09 MB/s 34.93 MB/s 35.46 MB/s
4K 0.409 MB/southward 0.976 MB/due south 0.420 MB/s i.028 MB/due south
4K QD32 0.491 MB/due south 0.984 MB/south 0.509 MB/due south one.017 MB/southward
Sandra Physical Disks Test
Drive Score (College is better) 30.75 MB/s 75.45 MB/south
Random Admission Time (Lower is better) 795 ms 409 ms

USB 3.0 needs no introduction beyond this betoken. For external hard drives the additional bandwidth makes a earth of deviation, in this particular case near tripling your throughput and making copying and reading files from the bulldoze a breeze in comparison to older USB 2.0 drives.