Silicon Power Mobile C31 Dual Interface USB 3.1 Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2017-06-22

With the new Mobile C31 USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Silicon Power is proposing a data transfer solution between different modern devices such as tablets, smartphones, PCs, laptops, without the need of accessing the online cloud. While the write speeds to the drive do reach a decent value of about 38MB/s, we have very good read speeds nearing 155MB/s, which should be enough in most usage environments.

 

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Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ stock

Motherboard: BIOSTAR GAMING Z97X

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 4x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

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

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64


The Silicon Power Mobile C31 USB 3.1 Flash Drive has arrived formatted FAT32:

 

 

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:

 

 

HD Tune File Benchmark

 

 


Summary Graph (Read Performance)

 

To measure the real life performance, we have used the Total Commander application to copy to the flash drive and from the flash drive the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, after they have stabilized.

 

File Copy


File Read


Summary Graph (Real-life performance)

 

 

We have also performed some extra tests with this drive and the results can be checked out right here:

ATTO

 

Anvil

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