Silicon Power’s Bolt B75 Pro: An External SSD up to 2 TB, USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C

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• Skeptical123 - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link

  With all those press images this article look like an ad. I would assume it was one but I don't see a sponsorship disclaimer anywhere.

• Valantar - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link

  That's a weird place to draw the line. Including the manufacturer's provided images when reporting on a press release is perfectly normal - how the device looks is rather crucial, after all, and with a just-released product it's unlikely there are other pictures available. Besides, wouldn't an ad try to sell this thing? There's no price, and IMO, passages like "Such levels of performance show that the Bolt B75 Pro drives use an entry-level SATA SSD behind a USB 3.1 Gen 2 controller. As always with these sorts of announcements, the company does not immediately disclose what kind of NAND flash memory and SSD controller the drives use." put this firmly in "not an ad" territory.

• Skeptical123 - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link

  Sorry if my wording was not clear, I have no issue with press images in general. My only gripe with the article is the shear amount of the ad style press photos. Sure on or two are normal and often unavoidable but the article has more a lot more than that. There are too many photos in this article in the first place that don't add information imo and some even say things like "your new drive elegant".
  
  Regardless in regard too "Besides, wouldn't an ad try to sell this thing? There's no price". Ads are often just about publicity and try to get you to buy things latter they don't have to sell you things directly including things like a price and link. For example movies and games are often advertised well in advance of set release dates and even age ratings.
  
  Also I've heard good things about the people that run anandtech I don't think their trying to pull a fast one here but as my point of view I would say its objective to much photo wise.

• rahvin - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link

  Shockproof is irrelevant. No SSD is susceptible to the same shocks as spinning Rust.

• Skeptical123 - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link

  Your right shock proofing is less not as crucial with SSDs than hard drives but there are still things that could break in the device. Stress fractures could form in pcbs and break traces, smd parts solder could shear for example. And the reality is not everyone understands the difference between hard drives and SSDs drives. Or people could just be looking at some specs on the sheet or box so it's worth stating still.

• Dragonstongue - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 - link

  why such low available speed especially via USB 3.1 / TB
  as well from size can easy get m.2 connectors in there so can "saturate" high speed wise, externally
  for those (like me) that want their storage to get proper cooled and not cramped into a hot
  area of motherboard ^.^

• Billy Tallis - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link

  USB 3.1 and Thunderbolt aren't the same thing, and using a USB-C connector doesn't automatically win you any faster data rate. This is a relatively low-end portable SSD. USB to SATA bridges (even ones with 10Gbps USB support) are cheaper than USB to NVMe bridges or Thunderbolt controllers. And SATA SSDs are still a bit cheaper than low-end NVMe.

• lmcd - Friday, May 24, 2019 - link

  USB to NVMe bridges are almost impossible aren't they? NVMe explicitly is over PCIe as best as I understand it, and PCIe isn't supported in USB until USB 4 AFAIK.

• Mitch89 - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link

  What about this is news?
  
  This looks like a cheap eBay case with an unknown 2.5-inch SSD inside. You could build one yourself with an $10 case and whatever SSD you'd like.

• motopen1s - Thursday, May 23, 2019 - link

  You are so right about this...)