Plugging the drive back into our test system it started up without any hiccups. To this end after performing our initial raft of tests we dropped it a dozen times from a height of four feet onto a wooden floor, ensuring it landed at least once on each corner and the front and back. The final test then for the StoreJet 25M3 is to see just how drop-proof it is. The final piece of software is ToolBox which provides tools for formatting and low level formatting the drive, with the latter for use when the drive has seemingly given up the ghost. Admittedly the software does make a point of saying it's for recovering photos but, really, who only wants to recover photos, plus it does give the option to look for PDFs and 'Office' files. MOV, for instance, meaning there's no way of selecting for it to look for them. The search function has to be told what file types to search for but the list is finite and quite limited, with no option for. The only setting of any real consequence is actually detrimental to the overall effectiveness. It's fairly rudimentary with few options on offer: you just click Recover and it sets off trying to find deleted data. The first of these is a data recovery program called RecoverRx.
You can just run Elite manually then tap the button each time you want to backup but the fact you have to startup a program just feels like it defeats the object of having a 'one-touch' solution. EXE to your system and add Elite into your Windows Startup folder to get it to load upon bootup (and even then it only works if you turn off 'run the program?' warnings). As such to have it ready for whenever you attach the drive and press the button you have to manually copy the. Instead of simply having some software that you can install and that kicks in automatically whenever the drive is attached, the software is standalone.
The backup function works but the process is decidedly convoluted. This is operated by pressing the round button on the drive's front - around which glows the drive's activity light. The second key feature of this drive after its drop-resistance is that it has a one-touch backup facility. The conclusion here being that if you plan to use your external drive as a working drive (for instance you store all your photos on it and edit them directly from it) then an SSD may still be your best bet.Įither way, though, the Transcend StoreJet 25M3 1TB has proven itself to be well up there with the speediest portable hard drives. While the Transcend and WD hard drives potter along at 1MB/s or below, the SSD delivers a much more responsive figure of around 33MB/s. However, when it comes to random read and write performance the real benefits of SSDs are once again highlighted.
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