The hard drive is shipped with a short USB3 cable.
Intern tinkers a MQ01ABC150 with firmware AQ001U.
The board has SATA II, 5400 rev / min and a buffer of 8 MB.
The drive is formatted with NTFS and provides 1397 GB.
The Stor.E Alu I think is an elegant external hard drive in an aluminum housing, which thermally makes a better impression than the plastic housing of the Basics series. And the price difference is so minimal that it is better to resort to the aluminum version.
The plate is relatively quiet - but you can hear them still. In 50 cm distance but I no longer perceive them.
In continuous operation (300 GB at a time copies), the plate is lukewarm. According CrystalDiskInfo there have been 41 ° C in the maximum. The plate is designed to 55 ° C.
For permanent work the plate (as fanless) but not designed.
The drive is as an external 2.5-inch drive relatively quickly. Miracles do not expect (especially in terms of access time).
In practice, for large files to reach average copy rates of 80-90 MB / s (backup images).
The supplied software Nero BackupIt Essential 12 I did not test it because it is too rudimentary and does not meet my standards of a backup program.
By the way, if you buy the integrated plate individually, then it is more expensive (90 euros as Stor.E / 110 Euro individually MQ01ABC150) at the moment more than 20 euros.
The guarantee is, however, may differ.
