Due to the declining demand for entertainment, the Win device in the hands has not been updated. Plus, the PC manufacturers have been updating the platform in the past six months. The market for the new platform (X99) and the new architecture (Pascal Pascal) is also continuing. In the fiery period, the prices of new products that lead to the first line are currently high and the activity is not strong. Therefore, the time to start is not appropriate. Until now, MacBook Pro has been used as the main external display. After all, it is a notebook, the time is slightly longer, the common problem faced is the lack of storage space, plus the previous hard drive and memory purchased by the new machine has been in a state of new stock dust, just come in handy.
• Hard disk cartridge selectionThe station recommended a lot of hard disk boxes, in order to avoid suspicion, think or not listed, we look for a look at their own, although the cost is still high, but one by one to understand the down, I think the original slippers home box even more me heart. Simply place orders directly. Hard disk box does not contain too many high-tech, the most important quality is undoubtedly the chip and power adapter. With reference to other hard disk box articles and comparisons, it is found that Yuan Gu, now the storage bus performance is stable and fits my needs.
According to demand, the final goal is set in the following:
Yuangu Star Diamond PD-FU3 3.5 inch HDD enclosure USB3.0+eSATA+1394B interface
- Product appearance
The first time we got the product packaging was still old, the wrong mark was USB2.0, and there were some minor problems inside, which may be the product of the pressure bin.
Considering that maybe this product's product line has been upgraded from USB2.0 to USB3.0, I found out how the external box of this product is labeled with USB2.0? This makes me wonder, plus The first product to be delivered also has some minor defects. To apply for replacement, JD's speed is very fast. The next day the new one will come over and get a new one.
The following is the first product to come to hand (as a new product to buy, encounter such a physical out of the box should not be ah, had to change and change)
After the replacement of the product packaging is more sharp ... even the interface parameters of the original surface are omitted.
The back of the package shows the system requirements and interface interface.
Open the box, the two ends of the hard disk box are firmly stuck in the foam pad, which greatly reduces the probability of certain transport damage.
The packaging is not sealed, the body is covered with such a layer of plastic film (so it does not necessarily guarantee the brand new without teardown?)
Included items include: PD-FU3 × 1 eSATA data cable × 1 1394b data cable × 1 USB3.0 data cable × 1 Power Adapter × 1 Warranty Card / Manual × 1
- product details
Star Drill PD-FU3 One of the attractions that attracted me was the idea of ​​Apple's industrial design. The overall use of all aluminum manufacturing, on the one hand, brought the overall appearance, on the other hand also enhance the cooling capacity. The surface of the 3 mm-thick aluminum box is sandblasted.
Simple top view, stand and place also save space for the desktop.
You can see several tall interfaces on the back of the box.
Some brief introductions about these interfaces are as follows:
2 FW800, 1 eSATA, 1 USB3.0 interface, power supply and switch are on the same side.
The other end is an innovative honeycomb heatsink design. After the operation, the blue light will be revealed inside the honeycomb.
The bottom is fixed by a bow-shaped standing stand.
I do not know if it is for the convenience of the user, purchased 2 times, the bottom is the default 2 screws are not screwed on.
Open the box to see the circuit board.
Internal layout of circuit boards and components.
The overhead line of LED lights is fixed at the top of the small details.
Neat circuit board and layout.
Ready to install this TOSHIBA 3TB 7200 to 64M SATA3 hard drive
The instructions are as follows. The wiring is very simple.
The instruction manual is to illustrate that I marked the red circle of the outer cover is not, this problem and the official manufacturers have confirmed that it is not to cover the cooling effect is better ... This reason I give full marks!
The following uses this disk to build a Time machine for the MAC, Apple's old users all know that this function once inseparable from the start, I have repeatedly deleted the product documentation or design drafts, relying on this function to find come back.
(The recommended size of Time machine is: 2-4 times of the backup Mac's disk space, so my 3T hard disk is very abundant, so I don't need to use it as a Time machine. According to the need, I choose to divide the hard disk into 2 partitions. , can give my MAC backup, but also have 1.5T space to do storage files use)
- The construction steps are very simple, about the following 3 steps:
Step1:control+ space, find and open "Disk Utility", then select the external target hard disk on the left side.
Step2: Select the "Partition" tab, through the "+, -" or drag the slider to allocate the space size, and then give the two partitions named, to be able to distinguish which partition is "Time machine backup disk", which One partition is a "file storage disk."
Step3: Click "Apply" to complete the creation of the partition.
After the creation is complete, this hard disk can be used as a "backup" and "file storage" at the same time.
Finally, as you will see on the disk of the Time machine, the folder with the following name (Backups.backupdb) goes in that partition.
Select this disk to backup your MAC. (In order to avoid XX, it is recommended to encrypt and remember the password)
The first backup time will be a bit long. In the later backups, incremental backups are used to back up only new/delete items, so the later period will be much faster.
Open the test software and select the TOSHIBA hard disk address that will be tested.
The test results are as follows:
Since the test was conducted in a multi-program environment, the read and write speeds were almost stable at about 150MB/s. The performance is not bad.
- Chips and Power Supplies
Chip: Most users just need to know that this part is the core of the HDD box. As this chip is the key to controlling the HDD box's bridging, it determines the performance of the HDD box, but no more than a mobile phone, it is not necessary to run every minute. . The Star Diamond PD-FU3 uses the DXUFS944 chip (OXF944), which is a chip with a reputation, but a single chip can support IEEE 1394b, eSATA and USB3.0 interface modes, excellent performance, and performance is stable enough. Generally speaking, to judge the quality of the control chip, the more intuitive method is: referring to the size of the chip, the larger the performance of the chip, the better. So if you go to a physical store, you don't know much about it, so let's look at sales.
Power: The power supply is the prerequisite for the stable operation of the HDD enclosure. Insufficient power supply performance can result in large-capacity hard disk read/write instability, hard disk data loss, and formatting failures. This is why the motherboard USB interface hard disk will often have problems, mainly due to the lack of USB interface power supply capacity, hard disk energy consumption is too high, USB connection is too long and other issues.
• to sum upCompared to the hard disk box on the market with various prices and prices, Yuangu's performance has always been a good one. After all, the price of the box, and the data is priceless, in order to avoid hard disk damage caused by data loss, stability is still the first element of choice.
- Advantages:
1. The shell shape is first class, the overall face value is very high, and it is very good with MAC style.
2. Rich interface, good compatibility of WIN and MAC, high speed and stability of data transmission.
3. The heat level is excellent.
4. The internal board works well, the components are neat and the wiring is reasonable.
5. Power supply is stable.
6. Daisy chain function, can be used in series later, and has good expansion ability.
7. Hard disk burn protection (this time can not test, do not want to test ...)
- Disadvantages:
1. The price is high.
2. Hard disk replacement trouble.
3. The internal packaging of the product is not sealed. Metal products are inevitably subject to oxidation, abrasion, etc. during storage.
4. The parameters on the product packaging are not consistent with the product, and the instructions on the installation configuration and the entity also failed to correspond to the operation (after the installation of the hard disk shown in the manual, cover the protective cover, the actual does not match).
5. The bottom screw is unilaterally fixed and there will be abnormal sound when shaken. (But considering that no one will often shake the desktop hard drive box, just like this..)
Content storage disk is the most common data carrier in current digital products, but most people may have less knowledge of the properties of hard disk box products, the price of the box is valuable, and the data is priceless. This paper hopes to be able to use the limited time and experience. The majority of value-friends share the reference point in the selection of the disk and enhance everyone's awareness of data backup and protection. Of course, if there is anything different from everyone's understanding, it may be that I understand that I am not good at it. I also hope that we can provide more guidance and study together.
Finally, in view of the time, more digital technology products are expected to be used in the later stages of the discussion. We welcome everyone to have more exchanges. If there are doubts and happen to be in the field of my concern, I will spare no effort to give everyone advice or accept advice, and even if there are certain values ​​of friends can selflessly reward or encourage, I will be more hard-working, very grateful.