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Silicon Power Bolt B10 USB 3.1 External SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2018-03-19

Bolt B10 was thought as a very compact, light storage device which can accompany you everywhere, while providing quite a bit of storage space. Wear Leveling helps extend the SSD life span, while the LDPC Error Correction mechanisms are in place for protecting against data corruption. The drive is compatible with the latest USB standards, but backwards compatibility is also enabled for USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 devices.

Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ 4.6GHz

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i GTX

Motherboard: BIOSTAR Z97X Gaming

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

Video: HIS RX 460 Slim-iCooler OC 2GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSDs: OCZ Vertex 3 240GB + OCZ Vertex 460

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

The drive has arrived formatted FAT32, but we will convert it to NTFS before the tests. Here is the total free space reported by Windows:

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive:

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