We would like to thank at first Silicon Power for supplying a sample of their Mobile C80 Dual Flash Drive for Type-C Ready Mobile Devices for testing and reviewing.

 

 

 

About Silicon Power:

 

“Silicon Power Computer & Communications Inc., founded in 2003 by a group of enthusiastic specialists in International Business, Global Marketing, and Technical Engineering of flash data storage industry. Well dedicated in brand image and product quality, Silicon Power has been recognized and well accepted by millions of end-users in more than 100 countries, becomes the world's leading manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, card readers, DRAM modules, solid state disks, and portable hard drives in less than a decade. Headquartered in Taipei, we continuously established various branches throughout the world including Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Mainland China and other emerging market to reach the worldwide market.

Silicon Power's overall performance has gradually drawn great attention worldwide. In 2006, we received Taiwan Rising Star Award for our foreign business achievement. In 2008, we won 17th National Outstanding Small & Medium Enterprise Award for our outstanding progress. Moreover, with superior quality and innovative design, our products stood out in several competitions and awarded Taiwan Excellence and COMPUTEX Design & Innovation Award in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Winning trust of global consumers, Silicon Power holds a record of successive double-digit revenue growth for last seven years. According to the Common Wealth Magazine's 2010 Survey of Taiwan Top 1000 Manufacturers, our 2009 revenue growth rate was ranked No.11 among Taiwan's top 1000 manufacturers, and even ranked No.1 in semiconductor industry.

Positioned as Passionate, Creative and Hungry for Success, Silicon Power introduces products for users who are seeking individualized, unique and personal digital storage devices. With the mission of creating unprecedented experience for users, Silicon Power will endeavor to deliver a full range of high quality products that have innovative designs, distinctly unique features and comprehensive after sales services to create and fulfill your personal memory.”

Product Features:

 

Dual interface for USB Type-C and USB Type-A ports

360° swivel cap design

Ergonomic design, easier to use and grasp

Exquisite circular shape, perfectly fitted on a keychain

Sturdy zinc alloy casing

COB (Chip-on-board) technology for water, dust and vibration proof

Exclusive free-download file management App?SP File Explorer

Recuva File Recovery, allowing recovery of erased files, such as digital photos, documents, music and videos

Dual interface for USB Type-C and USB Type-A ports

64GB: Up to Read 120 MBs/ Write 20 MBs

32GB: Up to Read 120 MBs/ Write 20 MBs

16GB: Up to Read 120 MBs/ Write 10 MBs

 

Product Specifications:

 

 

 

One of the latest USB Flash Drives from Silicon Power which is named Mobile C80 wants to take one step further by incorporating the Type-C connector, often found in latest generation mobile devices. Of course, for general compatibility we also have one standard USB Type-A port available on the opposite side, but let’s take a closer look at the packaging and the product itself. Mobile C80 is shipped inside a simple cardboard slim enclosure, with a layer of transparent plastic so we can see how the product does really look like without unsealing it:

 

 

 

Some more details regarding the product can be seen on the back side of the packaging:

 

 

 

Mobile C80 was designed to be quite compact and with a 360 swivel cap for easy access of the interface we need at a specific moment; the total storage capacity is also written on top, along with the debossed Silicon Power emblem:

 

 

 

The drive itself is considerably smaller, the top plastic layer helping us to attach the product easily to a key chain:

 

 

 

Here is also a look at the product when the USB Type-A port is revealed:

 

 

 

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 C80 Flash Drive has arrived formatted FAT32:

 

 

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used; the read speeds are quite good with this particular model, while the writes are decent (when transferring data from mobile devices) as well for the 16GB variant:

 

 

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:

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Anvil

The helper utility from Silicon Power has been updated to a new version featuring Windows 10 support, which seems to also mean a complete reskin. The menu placement is pretty much the same though and there we will find Project Backup, Data Encryption, My Favorite Backup and so on; the lower area of the interface shows how much space we have left:

 

 

From the Project Backup tab, we can define new backup tasks to be saved onto the drive:

 

 

Data Encryption tab is pretty self-explanatory:

 

 

The favorite websites from different web browsers can be saved to the drive from the next menu:

 

 

The files can be also classified in different predefined folders:

 

 

We can also work with online cloud storage:

 

 

From the Storage Device Information menu, we can check out the current status of the drive:

 

 

The last two menus are Download Norton which will redirect us to a trial version but also Language Choose from where we can select the language of the GUI:

 

 

Mobile C80 USB Flash Drive from Silicon Power is incorporating the Type C connector for compatibility with the latest mobile devices on the market, but also features the regular Type-A USB 3.0 port on the opposite side for general purpose. While the read speeds hover around 130MB/s when transferring large files, the writes hover around 11MB/s which should be enough when saving a backup of our photo collection from our newly-purchased smartphone.

 

Mobile C80 has been also designed to be as compact as possible and is easy to be attached to our keychain.

 

While the model we had in our test labs was the one featuring the smallest 16GB capacity, the product is also available in 32GB and 64GB versions.

 

The 16GB variant is available online for about 16 Euros, the 32GB for about 22 Euros and the highest capacity 64GB variant can be had for about 33 Euros.

 

Silicon Power Mobile C80 Dual Flash Drive for Type-C Ready Mobile Devices is Recommended For:

 

 

We would like to thank again to Silicon Power for making this review possible!