By Desire Athow
Silicon Power is not a household name even in the storage market: Adata, Samsung, SanDisk or Western Digital have built up much more goodwill amongst customers worldwide.
However, the Taiwanese brand has been investing heavily in marketing and PR recently, while at the same time building the sort of commercial network that allows products to be made widely available online.
Silicon Power sent us the Bolt B10 for review, a 512GB external SSD that retails at Amazon for £158 (around $210). Note that it is temporarily out of stock on Amazon UK at the time of writing, and lower capacity drives are also available.
Design
The B10 is tiny – weighing just over 27g and measuring 80 x 9 x 50mm, it could easily be slipped in a jeans’ front pocket. It is more compact than a standard business card and is a smidgen smaller than the Samsung T5. It sports a smooth black plastic chassis with a silver plastic rim, and a brushed metal finish.
Other than a status light (which blinks red when transferring data) and the letters SP on the front, there’s barely anything else worth mentioning about the drive. You can’t get more minimalist than the B10. …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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