Silicon Power Stream S06 4TB USB 3.0 HDD Review

Storage/HDD by stefan @ 2015-03-28

The Stream S06 4TB variant from Silicon Power is incorporating drives from Seagate, and to be more exact the ST4000DM000 model, which is built to support the 6Gb/s SATA interface, with a spindle speed of 5900RPM. The drive is featuring four platters, 1TB each and comes with a power consumption of 7.5W in normal operation, IDLE of 5W, while the sleep mode would only require 0.75W.

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A Closer Look Contd.

Its cable ends up with a jack plug:

 

 

 

Inside the manual, Silicon Power explains to us how to perform the hardware installation, in multiple languages:

 

 

 

The enclosure of the Stream S06 is all-black, features a smooth plastic texture and is provided with a handle for easy manipulation:

 

 

 

Near the product logo, we will also find a small blue activity LED:

 

 

 

On the lateral which is opposed to the handle, we will get to see the DC-IN port, along with an USB 3.0 port and also a small ventilation grill:

 

 

 

Silicon Power have taken the ventilation problem seriously, so on each side we have additional grills; the product can be sit both vertically and horizontally, so rubber feet are provided in both cases:

 

 

 

 

On the bottom we will be able to spot an additional sticker with the product serial number, capacity and also here we will find the four remaining rubber feet we were discussing about previously:

 

 

 

 

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