Joel cut his tech teeth on the Atari 2600, TRS-80, and the Mac Plus.We may earn affiliate commissions from buying links, which help support our testing.If you bought your laptop for portability, as well as making a design statement, this is the drive to consider.Its pricey on a dollar per gigabyte basis, but it wont keep you waiting for the HD videos you store on it.
![]() The solid aluminum protects the SSD chips inside, while the plastic houses the USB 3.0 connector and some of the drives branding. At about 0.4 by 5 by 3 inches (HWD), its one of the slimmest external drives weve reviewed in a pocket drive form factor, infinitesimally smaller than the G-Technology G-Drive Slim. Its a smidge longer (but thinner) than the Western Digital My Passport Edge (500GB). While the G-Drive Slim and WD My Passport Edge are rounded and have a sandwich construction, the P9223 Slim sports a unibody construction with sharp edges. A slit cut into the P9223 Slims body lets a drive light shine through. The 120GB is enough to back up 128GB and 64GB Apple MacBook Air laptops, as well as some SSD-equipped ultrabooks and tablets. However, the drive is a little short of capacity if your laptop has a spinning hard drive, which tend to run to higher capacitiesthink 320GB or more. In all these cases, you could use the P9223 Slim as supplemental storage. It asks you to partition the drive FAT32 or HFS with a sliding scale so you can either use it with PCs, Macs, or a combination of both. ![]() Lacie Porsche Design Install An OptionalLaCie also prompts you to install an optional simple backup program, encryption software, and a link to LaCies Wuala online storage service (10GB is included). You can choose to use LaCies automatic backup program, or use the backup included with Windows 8 or Mac OS X. Like most Mac-oriented drives, OS X asks you if you want to use the drive with Time Machine automatically. The P9223 Slim was very fast in our drag and drop copy test, taking only 13 seconds to transfer our 1.22 GB test folder. This makes the drive a great companion to an SSD-equipped laptop, as you wont be waiting for your data for any significant period of time. Short of a dual-drive Thunderbolt external SSD, the P9223 Slim is one of the fastest external drives available, much faster than a USB key or spinning hard drive. Its very stylish, and will appeal to anyone who enjoys seeing the Porsche Design brand on his or her stuff. That said, the P9223 Slims more expensive LaCie Rugged brother is more flexible, with both Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 ports, and can take the bumps and drops of real life better. His background includes managing mobile, desktop and network infrastructure on both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Joel is proof that you can escape the retail grind: he wore a yellow polo shirt early in his tech career. Along the way Joel earned a BA in English Literature and an MBA in Information Technology from Rutgers University. He is responsible for overseeing PC Labs testing, as well as formulating new test methodologies for the PC Hardware team. Along with his team, Joel won the ASBPE Northeast Region Gold award of Excellence for Technical Articles in 2005.
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