Conclusion
With prices of Flash memory dropping every couple of months, more and more people are considering getting SSDs as their OS and Application storage drives. While this might mean trouble for the traditional internal hard drives, Portable drives are actually going to benefit a lot from these developments because more and more people would be looking to augment their storage space to backup stuff which they can’t fit on their primary drives.
To take advantage of this situation, manufacturers need to strike the perfect balance among price, performance and features for portable storage. While widespread adaption of USB 3.0 might just be around the corner, their prices wouldn’t be as economical for backup purposes, nor would be their added speed benefits. In this situation, the Silicon Power Armor A70 seems to strike all the right chords. Its performance is close to the peak performance of the USB 2.0 interface, while it offers capacities as large as 640GB for a very reasonable prices.
Then through in features like Military grade shock protection and water resistance, and you’ve got yourself a drive which not only can be a good solution for your USB based NAS, but also a great travel companion. If only the drive would have come with an option to use eSATA as well as USB 2.0, this would have been one the best portable hard drives out there.
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