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Silicon Power Armor Series A15 USB 3.0 Portable HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2013-03-18

The new Armor A15 USB 3.0 Portable HDD from Silicon Power was designed to withstand shocks, vibrations in a better way than the majority of products from the same category. The case comes with a shock absorbent silica gel cover modeled in such a shape to increase the grip so we won’t drop it on the floor easily by mistake. A15 not available only at 1TB, but it can be also found at 750GB and 500GB capacities, at different price points.

Test Setup and Extra Info Part I

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock

Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS

RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Expansion: ASUS U3S6

When powered on for the first time, we will see that the Armor Series A15 drive comes formatted FAT32, with a single partition:

With the help of AIDA64, we will be able to extract some more information about the drive, which is a Seagate Spinpoint M8, with the rotation speed of 5400RPM:

A free-to-download utility is to be found on the Silicon Power website, which contains multiple functions to the drive:

The interface of the software is split into multiple sections:

One of the functions is the ability to backup the My Documents folder:

Next, we can sync and backup any folders from the internal drive:

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