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OCZ Enyo Reviews
OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive Review
Over the past year we have seen a plethora of solid state drives. All of them are pretty much the same besides the memory chips used and the controller. All of them have been the smaller 2.5-inch form factor with the typical SATA connections. Today we have something a little different, how about a portable solid state drive. OCZ calls this drive the Enyo and it uses a super fast USB 3.0 connection. So you get all of the durability advantages of an internal solid state drive but you also get easy portability. Let’s take a look... Special thanks to OCZ for providing us with the Enyo USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive to Review The Enyo comes in a nice little retail package that is not much larger than the drive itself. On the front there is a picture of the Enyo and on the back there is some information about the drive and a sticker that lets us know this is the 128GB version. Opening the box up everything is nicely packed inside. Inside you will find the Enyo drive, USB cable, user’s guide and a sticker that says, “My SSD is faster than your HDD”.
External Hard Drive Reviews
OCZ has one of the largest ranges of SSDs currently on the market. It's therefore no surprise to see that the firm's first external storage drive is also a flash-based product. And with solid-state memory twinned with a USB 3.0 port, the Enyo 128 GB promises exceptional performances. Unlike Buffalo Technology's USB 2.0 MicroStation external SSD, OCZ has waited for USB 3.0 to be rolled out before launching an external drive, so as not to hold back performances with the capped speeds of the 2.0 interface. In practice, a USB 2.0 connection can't handle more than 40 MBps and therefore can't exploit the incredible potential of solid state drives. However, USB 3.0 promises theoretical data transfer speeds of up to 625 MBps and, in practice, already promises to easily smash thorough 200 MBps, opening up the field for high-performance drives. Apart from the USB 3.0 connection, the Enyo features Micron memory with an Indilix controller. This had an excellent reputation in 2009, but is today outdone by the latest Intel and SandForce controllers. The Enyo is barely 1 cm thick, and is quite simply the lightest and most compact external storage drive we've tested to date (5.7 x 12 x 1 cm).
128GB OCZ Enyo USB 3.0 SSD
We’ve seen a few USB 3.0 external drives here at Maximum PC, and we do appreciate the long-overdue speed boost. It’s nice to have file transfers limited by drive speed again, rather than the interface—the 33MB/s maximum was killing us. And while we appreciated the boost we got from USB 3.0 in WD’s My Book 3.0 and the Vantec NexStar 3 SuperSpeed enclosure, the former was only as fast as the mechanical drive within it and the latter couldn’t even match the speeds of the drives it enclosed. It’s great to have a USB 3.0 interface on a mechanical drive, but wouldn’t it be nice to combine USB 3.0 with SSD? With a theoretical bandwidth limit exceeding 5Gb/s, why wouldn’t you? Thankfully, OCZ did. The Enyo is a compact anodized aluminum brick stuffed with MLC NAND and a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed port. At 5.6x12x1cm, the Enyo is longer and slimmer than a 2.5-inch drive in an enclosure—it’s more the size of a slim phone. Its 128GB of MLC flash and 64MB of DRAM cache are controlled by a Barefoot Indilinx controller. So it’s essentially a last-gen OCZ Vertex or Agility (or any other Barefoot drive) and a SATA-to-USB 3.0 controller in a slightly different chassis.
OCZ Enyo 128GB USB 3.0 Portable SSD
The first USB 3.0 storage device to cross out path came last month, in the form of Super Talent's 32GB SuperCrypt. As the drive was built with the super-fast 3.0 bus in mind, it was easy to expect some good performance, but considering it had internal hardware on par with what we've been seeing in 2.5" solid-state drives, what we ended up seeing was performance that put our mechanical hard drives to shame. An interesting thing about that drive though, is just how non-interesting it actually was. It didn't look bad, but it didn't look all too attractive, either. Instead, it was designed to look like a simple thumb drive, except bloated to support the SSD and USB controllers, and an undoubtedly different PCB design compared to most 2.0 drives. All-in-all, though, even though Super Talent's drive didn't wow us on the design, its performance was superb. Though, there's nothing wrong with having the best of both worlds. Thanks to OCZ, that looks to be a real possibility. Its Enyo portable SSD was specifically designed not only to offer outstanding performance, but to also become the most stylish USB device you've ever owned. It's a good thing, too, because I'm still having a hard time getting past its strange name.
Prices
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Ocz Technology 128gb Solid State Sataii Drive | $390 | See it |
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OCZ Technology Enyo Series 128 GB USB 3.0 Solid State Drive OCZSSDU3-1ENY128G | $395 | See it |
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Ocz Technology 128gb Solid State Sataii Drive | $395 | See it |
