Evaluation of Toshiba XS700 Solid-state Mobile Hard Disk for High-speed Portable Storage

In the era of big data information, the demand for personal data storage is also growing rapidly. No matter in mobile phones, computers or other terminal platforms, a huge amount of data will be generated every day, so accessing and backing up useful parts of these data is the most urgent demand of users, and a high-speed and stable storage has become an indispensable tool for work and life.

Among external storage devices, mobile mechanical hard disk has always been the best choice for users' office life and business trip because of its portability and huge storage space. However, due to the progress and development of the times, the access speed limit of mechanical hard disk has gradually failed to keep up with the growing demand for massive data access.

However, the technology of solid-state hard disk is becoming more and more mature, and its popularity on the PC side is becoming wider and wider. Because SSD architecture is simpler, in this context, SSD has joined the ranks of mobile storage products. Although expensive, it is faster and quieter. Today, the Toshiba solid-state mobile hard disk XS700 240G recently launched by Toshiba Storage came to our editorial department. Let's know how this SSD mobile hard disk performs through detailed evaluation.

Exquisite and compact body

Toshiba XS700 adopts simple paper packaging box, and the most eye-catching position on the front is occupied by the main body of the product. Explained some product information and parameters, including two-dimensional code with anti-counterfeiting authentication.

The front of Toshiba XS700 is a whole frosted aluminum alloy metal plate. This time, it is still a simple design style. There is only one "Toshiba" embossed logo on the front, which has a good feel and look.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that there is also an annular indicator light consisting of a plurality of micropores in the upper right corner of the front of the product, which will light up with white light when powered on.

The high brightness material specially treated by CNC is used on the side, which improves the brightness layering of the whole hard disk. Metal-style shell can also give people a strong and durable feeling.

Secondly, because the solid state has no complicated mechanical structure, it can be made thinner and lighter in appearance size. Toshiba XS700 is very small, the product size is only 95*75* 1 1mm, and the weight is only 90g. Product specifications are only the size of a palm, which is very light and portable.

Interface, equipped with a USB-C interface, is the only interface of the whole hard disk. In addition, it supports USB3.0 and USB3. 1 interfaces, and can also access various devices with Type-C interfaces through the attached Type-C adapter, which is also very friendly to users who use Apple computer devices.

The back is rounded and angular, and the front is made of different black leather materials, which makes it feel very delicate and has a certain anti-slip effect.

Benchmark performance testing is efficient and fast.

In the performance test, we use Crystal, ATTO hard disk benchmark and AS SSD benchmark to measure the performance of hard disk from both theoretical and actual values. First of all, we use CrystalDiskMark to detect the hard disk information, and Toshiba XS700 uses the commonly used USB3.0 interface in the test.

Crystal spot test

Among the most commonly used SSD operating software CrystalDiskMark, Toshiba XS700 1G has a fairly good reading and writing performance, with sequential reading and writing reaching 347.9MB/s and 333.3MB/s, and the scores of 4K Q 1T 1 are also 2 1MB/s and 47.75. ..

ATTO disk benchmark test

ATTO disk benchmark is a simple and easy-to-use software for detecting disk transfer rate, which can be used to detect the read-write rate of mobile disks such as hard disk, U disk and memory card. Toshiba storage XS700 is also stable for reading and writing files of various sizes, with the highest reading speed of about 336. 12MB/s and the highest writing speed of about 345.21MB/s. ..

Such as SSD 1G, 3G, 5G, 10G test.

Because SSD BenchMark is a running software for SSD. We tested 1G, 3G, 5G, 10G (the bigger the analog writing, the lower the score) to simulate the reading and writing of HDD in actual use. The test performance of Toshiba XS700 is not bad, and it can maintain a relatively stable reading speed in all tests. It reached 303.8 1MB/s and 306.79MB/s in the 1G reading and writing test, and reached 309.4 1MB/s in the 3G reading and writing test. In the 5G and 10G reading and writing tests, the results of sequential writing were all in1s. ..

Evaluation summary:

Nowadays, the solid-state mobile hard disk products on the market have more advantages than the traditional mechanical mobile hard disk in transmission performance, safety, stability and portability, and are more suitable for different working scenarios. Regardless of the price, the future solid-state storage mobile hard disk will completely replace the mechanical mobile hard disk.

Toshiba XS700 240G solid-state mobile hard disk is designed with the simple and atmospheric style of Toshiba storage, which is very business-like. In terms of performance and practicality, it is more suitable for people who are in urgent need of productivity tools and often need to run around in the media and photography industries. Of course, it is also very suitable for people who need outdoor use, and the small shape will not cause the burden of carrying. Rich interface support can copy photos and video materials in video recording equipment at any time, release memory in time, back up data, and high-speed transmission performance can also reduce users' waiting time and effectively improve work efficiency.

At present, the e-commerce price of Toshiba XS700 240G is 649 yuan. Personally, I think it is very cost-effective, and it is worth recommending to photographers and professional users who have requirements for large-capacity data access.