Packaging and Design
Good package designs show how serious manufacturers are about their products. A well designed package is an important factor lots of buyers consider when shopping for stuff, and Silicon Power doesn’t disappoint here. Unlike most Portable Hard drive package, the ArmorA70’s box is large, and features a plastic see through window on the front whish shows you the contents of the box.
The real estate on the back and sides is fully utilized by highlighting the features of the drive in ten different languages. Inside the box, you’ll find the Armor A70, the User Manual, Warranty Card and the Software Disc which contains the SP Widget software package allowing you to do a multitude of things including backup and encryption from the convenience of your desktop. But I would have preferred to have that software suite preloaded on the drive it self because its pointless shipping a CD with a hard drive.
As for the design of the actual hard drive it self, the all plastic body doesn’t look and feel cheap at all, which is the case with most portable hard drives these days. In fact holding the drive in the hand gives you the feeling that it is rugged enough to easily withstand a fall – and it can, since it meets the U.S. Military Drop-Test standards to protect your data. And that isn’t enough, the Armor A70 can also take a dive – in water – as well and live to tell the tale.
There is an indented slot on one side of the drive designed to easily carry the connection cables. The drive it self can be connected using only one USB port on your computer, but for optimum performance, I’d recommend using the two way split cable included in the box and use two different ports on the rear side of your computer.
And just to prove how rugged the Armor A70 really is, here's a video I found on YouTube showing the drive being thrown, drowned and overrun by a sedan, and live to tell about it. (Sorry for the language though - I think its in Hungarian).
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