Other by stefan @ 2017-06-22
With the new Mobile C31 USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Silicon Power is proposing a data transfer solution between different modern devices such as tablets, smartphones, PCs, laptops, without the need of accessing the online cloud. While the write speeds to the drive do reach a decent value of about 38MB/s, we have very good read speeds nearing 155MB/s, which should be enough in most usage environments.
We would like to thank at first Silicon Power for supplying a sample of their Mobile C31 Dual Interface USB 3.1 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.”
Dual interface Type-A (USB 3.1 Gen 1)/ Type-C flash drive for easy data transmission between Type-A and Type-C port devices
Instant storage expansion of up to 128GB for Type-C generation mobile devices
360° swivel cap for flexible protection and no cap loss
Metal casing and diamond cut pattern for a classy and modern look
Tiny and compact
Protected against water, vibration, and dust through COB technology
Free down of SP Widget software (for computer) and SP File Explorer App (for Type-C and Android mobile devices) for efficient file management
Recuva File Recovery for data recovery of erased files
In this article, we will concentrate our attention upon a compact and versatile USB 3.1 flash drive from Silicon Power, which does feature both A-type and C-type connectors in order to be compatible with the latest hardware such as smartphones, laptops, desktop PCs and so on. The packaging Mobile C31 Dual USB flash drive does come in is pretty simple and is mostly made from cardboard (except the thin plastic layer the main product is shipped in); on the frontal area we will get to see an example of data migration between different devices, the product code name, total capacity storage, along with the name of the application which can be used with mobile platforms:
On the back side, we do get to see a small product description, in many different languages, along with instructions for downloading the desktop platform applications:
The top layer of the Mobile C31 is made of black plastic, with a diamond cut pattern which looks quite nice:
One of the USB ports is always accessible:
Thanks to the 360 degree swivel feature, we are able to switch interfaces in a snap; the USB Type-A connector does also feature laser-etched inscriptions of the total storage space along with the utilized bus version:
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 C31 USB 3.1 Flash Drive has arrived formatted FAT32:
To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:
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:
With the new Mobile C31 USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Silicon Power is proposing a data transfer solution between different modern devices such as tablets, smartphones, PCs, laptops, without the need of accessing the online cloud. While the write speeds to the drive do reach a decent value of about 38MB/s, we have very good read speeds nearing 155MB/s, which should be enough in most usage environments.
Besides using a modern interface as USB Type-C, Silicon Power has designed the product chassis in such a way so switching between Type-A and Type-C can be done in a couple of seconds, thanks to the 360 degrees swivel mechanism. As additional product features, we could remind of water-proof, vibration-proof but also dust-proof, which makes the Mobile C31 ready to use in most situations.
Besides the 64GB capacity we have tested in the current review, the product is also available in 16GB, 32GB and 128GB capacities.
We would like to thank again to Silicon Power for making this review possible!