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Review on πŸ’» HP P600 250GB Portable USB 3.1 External SSD 3XJ06AA#ABC - Ultra-Fast Storage Solution for On-the-Go by James Parker

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Portable, rugged, but with some unwanted hidden attributes

Lightweight, durable, perfectly rectangular deck-sized box. Daily. Files are copied quickly and without lag, just like a flash drive, even on USB 2 ports. The actual drive is actually half the thickness of the packaging - around 8mm, and the bottom half accommodates a magnetic-mount case Hold the detachable cable and adapter plug. However, as others have pointed out, the drive contains three independent controllers: two 125.0GB drives and a read-only 49.4MB drive that is recognized as a CD-ROM. These aren't partitions - they're really separate disks. However, this can be useful as you can dedicate each drive to a specific task (install programs on one, store data on another) or format each drive with a different file system (handy if you frequently switch between Windows and Linux systems ). The only nasty part is the read-only drive, which contains the Windows Drive Encryption application. It messes up drive lists and you stick with it whether you like it or not.

Pros
  • Decent performance
Cons
  • May cause injury