This outsourcing hasn’t compromised build quality, though. The p2100s has a brushed metal enclosure that feels very well-made and robust. It’s slightly wider and taller than some other portable disks, but it’ll still easily fit in your pocket or slip into a bag. It’s also available in a variety of colours, as well as a cheaper 500GB model. No accessories are supplied beyond the included micro USB3 cable. The 1TB disk used is the Toshiba MQ01ABD100, a 2.5in 5, 400rpm SATA2 model with a 8MB cache.
It sped through our tests when copying large files, writing them at 94.2MB/s and reading them at 104.3MB/s. Its performance was less impressive when copying small files, writing them at 17.9MB/s and reading them at 15.7MB/s. We’ve seen faster small file performance from other portable USB3 disks, such as the Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB