Anvil’s Storage Utilities
Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it.
Empty Drive
25% Data Fill
50% Data Fill
75% Data Fill
Drive Performance Analysis
Drive Comparison
For the purpose of drive comparison, I will be using the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data-fill.
The downside of the SP HDD Lock Utility is that the sofware itself must be installed in the PC where you connect the drive to. Otherwise it is impossible to access the drive.
Meaning, if you install the SP HDD Lock Utility in your PC, you can set the password and it works as shown here. But what about plugin it into a different PC? Unless the utility is installed on that other PC as well, the drive will not even show up!
I really do not understand why the utility is not into the drive itself as with my other Western Digital external HDD. In the WD, you can connect it to ANY computer and it will just prompt for the password to access it. The software it is of course, included in the HDD.
Major flaw that is unfortunately making me return this drive.