TweakTown reviews the SSD2go PRO

"This new design from Angelbird, outlived the expectations"

TweakTown, one of the biggest technologie websites in the world, were able to get their hands on our SSD2go Pro for review. TweakTown already gave a stunning review to our SSD2go a few months ago when the SSD2go got their Must Have Editors Choice Award and said they were looking forward to trying the new SSD2go PRO; they were not disappointed.

The SSD2go PRO uses the new NovaChips "Bugatti" controller and comes in 320GB and 640GB. TweakTown benchmarked the drive and found out exactly why the SSD2go PRO has "PRO" in its name.



TweakTown showed that the SSD2go PRO has a super constant and stable performance, no matter what the fill grade is. The rightfully call it an "enterprise class external storage solution".

The review was released on 31st December 2013, making the last of a series of well received reviews for Angelbird products in 2013.

TweakTown confirmed the focus of Angelbird has always been on using top tier components to manufacture their solutions, stating they “found the same level of quality that we [TweakTown] have come to expect from Angelbird.

“Looking over the drive, we found the same level of quality that we have come to expect from Angelbird. The enclosure is machined out of a single block of aluminum, and then anodized to military specifications using a special process that is actually 100% Green, and Earth friendly.”

The SSD2go PRO, in addition to the very fast USB 3.0 5Gb/s connector has a eSATAp 6Gb/s capability with a switch on the left to control function of the underlying controller.



TweakTown opened up the external SSD drive to have a peek inside and confirmed the enclosure is precision machined to the components of the PCB, as what you would find only in an enterprise Solid State Drive.



They were also impressed with the bundled software, System Reflection, a new, innovative backup and recovery software that is designed to allow instant recovery from hard drive crashes, virus attacks, and other corruptions that keep your PC from running properly. No other backup solution allows you to restart, and run your PC directly from your backup drive. Even from USB!

TweakTown decided to test the PRO version of System Reflection with a full system backup of their drive; this makes incremental backups of their system to the external Angelbird SSD. Their back up took just twelve minutes to give them a fully bootable clone of their Operating System.

In their initial testing of the SSD2go, TweakTown found the external SSD drive touching near 450 MB/s read, and 400MB/s write. Using the Fill Testing benchmark, a benchmark pioneered by Tweak Town’s Chris Ramseyer, TT said this is really where Angelbird comes into its own.

As you can from the following screenshot, the drive loses no performance regardless of the fill rate.



Comparing it to the LaCie P9223 they found when looking at the write performance the LaCie drive dropped from 37K IOPS to 20K IOPS at 60 percent fill, whereas the Angelbird SSD2go Pro saw no loss in performance. In sequential testing TT found the same resilience in the SSD2go.

In conclusion, TweakTown stated that Angelbird always tends to rival what they find in the enterprise market.

“One thing that always strikes me with Angelbird is the amount of care and quality that goes into their products, from the initial concept and design of the product, down to the materials used in production. If you yourself have ever owned something that was high quality, you know the feeling you get when you hold it in your hands and look at it, and even work with it. It's that same feeling I get when I have the chance to look at product from Angelbird.”

CEO of Angelbird, Roman Rabitsch said: “2013 has been an explosive year for Angelbird, where we have seen a series of positive and highly complimentary reviews and it was terrific to finish off 2013 with such a great endorsement of our latest product the SSD2go PRO from such a respected technology reviewer like TweakTown.

“In 2014 we will be announcing more new products and I look forward to the challenge ahead of building upon the success of Angelbird and making it a world leading brand in the field of Solid State Drive technologies.”

In their conclusion, TweakTown says "...the performance and build quality of this drive were spectacular and even more exceeding my expectations."



For the full review, head over to the original article on TweakTown, where you can also find a nice New Year gift discount code from Angelbird and TweakTown.