Monday, July 25th 2022
ORICO Launches High-Performing Portable USB4 SSD Inspired by Mondrian
ORICO - Shenzhen-based innovative enterprise focusing on high-performance solutions for USB data transmission and charging - is proud to unveil the ORICO USB4 High Speed Portable SSD Montage 40 Gbps series, with a striking and durable design inspired Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. The bold and bright aesthetic draws from Mondrian's famous work Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, incorporating the thick black lines and blocks of color that immediately distinguish the device from the monochrome alternatives on the market. Loud, but not lurid, the design is applied with the durable in-mold labeling technique also found in automobile manufacturing for its resistance to corrosion.
However, the product engineers at ORICO do not pursue form over function and have invested in the right technology to make the Montage 40 Gbps series one of the best-performing SSDs available. During performance testing, the drive achieved 3,126 MB/s reading speed, a 2,832 MB/s writing speed, and transferred 3 GB files in just one second, matching, and even surpassing, many leading products currently on the market. Accompanied by a versatile 2-in-1 data cable for USB type A and type C connections, the drive is widely compatible and able to be used with Mac OS, Windows, Android, and Linux operating systems without requiring a driver. Depending on user requirements, the Montage series offers capacity options ranging from 512 GB to 2 TB. "We are so excited to launch the eye-catching Montage series, serving superior performance and carrying a timeless aesthetic that really transcends style trends," commented Xu Yeyou, CEO of ORICO. "We had in mind on-the-go creatives, such as photographers and video editors, when designing the product."
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However, the product engineers at ORICO do not pursue form over function and have invested in the right technology to make the Montage 40 Gbps series one of the best-performing SSDs available. During performance testing, the drive achieved 3,126 MB/s reading speed, a 2,832 MB/s writing speed, and transferred 3 GB files in just one second, matching, and even surpassing, many leading products currently on the market. Accompanied by a versatile 2-in-1 data cable for USB type A and type C connections, the drive is widely compatible and able to be used with Mac OS, Windows, Android, and Linux operating systems without requiring a driver. Depending on user requirements, the Montage series offers capacity options ranging from 512 GB to 2 TB. "We are so excited to launch the eye-catching Montage series, serving superior performance and carrying a timeless aesthetic that really transcends style trends," commented Xu Yeyou, CEO of ORICO. "We had in mind on-the-go creatives, such as photographers and video editors, when designing the product."
7 Comments on ORICO Launches High-Performing Portable USB4 SSD Inspired by Mondrian
Questions:
A) Why are 3 of the 5 so thick and narrow, but one is thin and wide ?
B) Why one has 2 usb ports ?
C) If these are so called USB4 drives, then why are they so s*l*o*w* ? perhaps cause they used a cheap bridge chip ? Even Gen 3 nvme drives can hit ~32-3500MB/s....
The addition of Titan ridge was cool because it offers a usb3.1 fallback mode, earlier intel thunderbolt controllers (JHL6340 for example) didn’t offer a usb fallback mode. The consequence is with the Titan Ridge enclosures, you can use them both with a thunderbolt and non-thundebolt usb-c port. So either you get 40 gbps in pcie mode, or 10 gbps in usb mode. With earlier enclosures, you could only use them with a thunderbolt port… they wouldn’t function in a usb3.x usb-c port.
So im curious if this new enclosure is truly a usb4 chipset, and if so, which one. And if they truly get 3100 MB/sec then that’s a step forward with slightly more speed than is offered by the current gen JHL7440. But it may just be the same old intel JHL7440 inside… I’m skeptical. By calling it usb4 they don’t have to get Intel’s thunderbolt certification and the products also don’t seem to be certified by the USB-IF for usb4 either so I doubt they’re using a usb4 controller.
Misread Mondrian for Mandalorian and thought to myself, those drives don't look like beskar.