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The editors liked
Compact
Attractive drive that can be tossed in a laptop bag
Sleek design
Easy to set up
Easy to operate
Needs no external power
Option to backup online for Windows users
Compact
Powered by a USB Y cable
No AC adapter required
PC and Mac backup software included on drive
Virtually silent operation
Large capacity for a travel drive
Very compact and light
Bus powered
Good bundled backup software
Cool and quiet in operation
Three-year warranty
Two free gigabytes of online storage.
One of the fastest portable drives we’ve tested. Stylish color options.
Stylish design
Free 2GB of online backup
Encryption software
High-end design
Backup software included for both Mac and PC
Fast read speeds on a Mac
The editors didn't like
Uses backup software from a third-party vendor that stores data in its own proprietary format
So it may be easier to just drag-and-drop your files into the drive manually
Mac users might like the free 2GB of online strorage
Too…
Supplied USB cable seems short at just 17 inches long
No FireWire
Doesnt ship with power cord.
The discburning software couldn’t find our optical drives.
Mediocre transfer speeds
Thick
Much higher price per gigabyte than competing drives
Abstract: This will be a quick one! What we have here is a dead-simple, compact 500GB external USB hard drive. To be honest there’s very little else to add. That won’t stop me from making you click through to hear about it, though. The SimpleTech Mini drive from...
Abstract: REVIEW The Signature Mini Black Cherry 320GB ($179.99 list) from SimpleTech is a meticulously crafted portable hard drive that gives products like the Western Digital My Passport Elite (WDML3200) a run for their money. Its price per gigabyte (around ...
Stylish design, Free 2GB of online backup, Encryption software
Mediocre transfer speeds
We would like to have seen faster read and write speeds—and the Ultimate Backup software preinstalled on the drive—but the $169 Fabrik SimpleTech Signature Mini (backed by a three-year warranty) is a good-looking and versatile hard drive.
Abstract: Data transfer speeds on external USB 2.0 storage devices simply can’t compare to hard drives that move files around using internal interfaces like SATA, RAID and SCSI. A comparison between the two isn’t very useful, and expectations for each should be...
Abstract: SimpleTech Signature Mini Drive Review Posted on: June 22, 2008 A few months ago, we tested the SimpleDrive from SimpleTech, this time we had the opportunity to lay our hands on the new SimpleTech series, the Signature Mini Drive. Our test unit is a S...
Large capacity for a travel drive; very compact and light; bus powered; good bundled backup software; cool and quiet in operation; three-year warranty; two free gigabytes of online storage.
No FireWire; doesnt ship with power cord.
The SimpleTech Signature Mini Black Cherry is a compact, USB-only external hard drive that will tempt you with its sleek design, and then win you over with its capacity, performance, and price.
Compact
Powered by a USB Y cable, no AC adapter required
PC and Mac backup software included on drive
Virtually silent operation
Supplied USB cable seems short at just 17 inches long
Heres my quick look video review of the Signature Mini USB drive from SimpleTech. Features Available in 120GB up to 320GB capacityCompact designComes with Windows and Mac backup softwareDoesnt require an AC adapterClick thumbnail to play video Video...
The SimpleTech 250GB Signature Mini Drive is a great product for the price. With its stylish Ferrari inspired lines, large capacities, and small size, its a no brainer. Our benchmarks above show an average read/write speed of 33.4MB/s, which is nothi...
