Other by stefan @ 2016-08-21
Jewel J30 USB 3.1 Flash Drives are small and cute at the same time, resembling nuts (one of the favorite squirrel meals) and they do incorporate Micro COB technology for packing up to 64GB of storage. The product rubber connector cover does make them more durable (against water, dust and vibration), while the lid-holder strap design makes sure that we won’t lose the USB port cover while the drive is in use.
We would like to thank at first Silicon Power for supplying a sample of their Jewel J30 USB Flash Drive for testing and reviewing.
“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.”
Compact rubberized case
Lovely design with special acorn shape
Vivid color choices
Extremely mini and lightweight
Lid-holder strap design, preventing cap loss problem
Micro COB (Chip On Board) technology, offering protections against water, dust and vibration
SP Widget, the exclusive free-download software, provides powerful functions such as data backup & restore, AES 256-bit encryption and cloud storage for efficient data management.
One member of the new series of USB Flash Drives from Silicon Power is the Jewel J30 which is manufactured in two different colors (red, purple), sporting diminutive dimensions (27.8 x 21.39 x 9.95 mm). The product is available in different capacities (8GB, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB), our sample being the 64GB variant; the product is shipped inside a slim cardboard/plastic enclosure, which allows the user to take a look at the item without the need of unsealing it; on the frontal area we are able to see that this is in fact an USB 3.1 product, with USB 3.0 and 2.0 backwards compatibility, the total storage capacity and the fact that we can download the SP Widget free software which adds extra functionality:
The back side of the enclosure offers the user a small product description in different languages, along with some other different resources:
Because of the Micro COB (Chip On Board) technology, Silicon Power was able to create a very small and cute portable storage product, with protection against water, dust and vibration thanks to its rubber cover:
Jewel J30 does come with a lid-holder strap design, which helps us not to lose the protective cover during use:
The rubber cover removal is pretty straight-forward:
Considering that we are dealing with a 64GB USB Flash Drive, it is amazing to see how little the actual PCB is (if we leave out the size of the USB 3 connector):
On the opposite side of the USB connector we have some additional inscriptions:
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 Jewel J30 USB 3.1 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:
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
We have also performed some extra tests with this drive and the results can be checked out right here:
SP Widget free software utility adds some more value to the product; it can be downloaded from the Silicon Power website and presents itself with an easy to use interface; we can use the USB drive for backups and the main screen will show the current progress:
The first menu is in charge of Backup and Restore tasks:
Data Encryption menu is next:
Favorites can be saved to the drives from the installed browsers;
We can also use the cloud for addition backup options:
Lastly, we can adjust the interface language, check the user manual, the Log file or go back to the main menu:
Jewel J30 USB 3.1 Flash Drives are small and cute at the same time, resembling nuts (one of the favorite squirrel meals) and they do incorporate Micro COB technology for packing up to 64GB of storage. The product rubber connector cover does make them more durable (against water, dust and vibration), while the lid-holder strap design makes sure that we won’t lose the USB port cover while the drive is in use.
Two color choices (red and purple) are ready for each of the available capacities and Silicon Power does also offer the SP Widget free tool on their website in order to use the product as a backup device.
White the write speeds for this product are a bit average, the reads are over 111MB/s, which should be enough in many usage environments.
We would like to thank again to Silicon Power for making this review possible!