Shaped like two bricks of ceramic stacked and also great, of the iStoragePro IT2PKTV Pocket view RAID sports table several options interface, the removal of hard disk without effort and a useful LCD screen menu, which makes it a good choice for those who want to update on the State of their device.The table enclosed aluminum front is blue menu screen LCD of the iT2PKTV, where you can access a large number of useful data. By pressing the two buttons Set below, you can see the temperature of your readers and Forum, fan speed, smart status, RAID mode and history of errors if there was in the past of the table. Even if the screen is very promising, it's a little small and the font is a bit difficult to read. With the screen, there are holes for ventilation, the lights of the activity and corporate logo, which turns white, while the table is used.A fan under the table retains the iT2PKTV freshness. While the unit is in operation, issued fan a mild buzzing was perceptible two feet of distance. The sound was not strong enough to lead us to a wall, but it was a constant reminder that the unit was alive.The back of the table has USB 2.0, FireWire 800, and eSATA, as well as access to the switches RAID and the DC power input ports. You also have access to the hard drive trays, which are rather easy to remove. Press the blue button, pull the lever that appears on the disk hard with and remove the screw holding the drive in place, if you want to pop in another.As for power, the iT2PKTV does not have a start/stop switch. Instead, readers turn by plugging a bus-powered FireWire port, or by using the adapter included for use with USB or eSATA. To enable it, you simply unplug, making it a lesser button that face you.The unit we reviewed had two 2.5 inches, 320 GB, Seagate Momentus 7200 RPM, and by default drives, drives are shipped in a RAID 1 configuration and formatted for Mac. Inside of the box is all connection cables, that you need, except for a FireWire 800 to 400 cable for use of the table with the Mac with FireWire 400, but no FireWire 800. A power adapter, CD with the manual of the user with instructions on how to change the RAID configuration are also included. Table 2.8 pounds and measures 7.3 by 4 1by 3 inches, smaller than the typical RAID of a table, but certainly not Pocket.Try as he might, the iT2PKTV could not overthrow the speed displayed by other external portable drives, that we tested, but he could not stay with the field. Table copied a folder from 2 GB to 30 4MBps with USB 2.0; by comparison, the skin of Iomega is faster to 31 3MBps. In the test write AJA, the iT2PKTV posted at 31 6MBps write speed, which is 0 4MBps shy to reach the 32 0MBps obtained by four other players that we tested.
FireWire 800 tests showed similar results. The iT2PKTV read our test file of 2 GB to 76 5MBps, almost on the high 77 9MBps reached by dual Pro OWC Mercury Elite-AL (mini) and reached 83 6MBps in the read test AJA, close to the high 84 9MBps reached by OWC drive. Change the array to a RAID 0 configuration displayed speeds comparable to RAID 1.If you are on the market for a solidly built RAID array which is informative and small, the iT2PKTV is a good choice, so much that you bother some fan hum.
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