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Silicon Power Secure G50 USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2018-11-27

The new Secure G50 USB Flash Drive series from Silicon Power offers an additional layer of protection against data theft by utilizing AES 256-bit hardware-based full-disk encryption in XTS mode and the SP Locker application is the point of interaction for unlocking the sensitive data partition. The drive will re-lock as soon as it has been unmounted and if there have been multiple attempts to guess the password (or brute-force), the drive contents will be erased in order to avoid data leakage.

Test Setup and Test Results

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 Secure G50 USB 3.0 Flash Drive is split into two partitions; one is public and contains the software necessary for unlocking the drive and the other is hidden (secure), which gets visible only after supplying the correct credentials:

Public Partition

Secure Partition

Here is the total storage space on the Secure partition, after it has been made available:

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:

HD Tune File Benchmark

Summary Graph (Read Performance)

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

Summary Graph (Real-life performance)

We have also performed some extra tests with this drive and the results can be checked out right here:

ATTO

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