Synology Bedrive (starts at 99.99; according to a test of 9 169.99 for 2TB) is an external solid state drive on a mission. At a glance, Bedario resembles any other highly portable external SSD of any kind, but when combined with Synology’s Bedrive software, it enables you to easily and as usual and synchronize files between your computer or mobile device files and tools. Our extensive performance testing suggests that badrio is not fast for normal SSD storage, though, it is excellent as a dedicated backup center. If you need a speedy general purpose external SSD, you would like to check the key X9 Pro that wins the selection of editors.
Design: On the surface, a normal ultra -portable exterior SSD
Taiwan -based Synology has sold its name Multi -Bay network -connected storage (NAS) devices, most of the raids such as editors’ choice -winning synology diskstation DS1522+. Badrio and simultaneously issued synology is eased by ethics, which are designed as personal devices that are substitutes for subscription cloud storage. The Bettation desktop unit includes a single 4TB synology hard drive, while very small Beedrio provides this portability with lack of basetation and NAS solution.
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All Black Badrio has a stylish look with a square frame, gently curved top and sides, and round corners. A status light is facing upward in a corner. Bedrio measures 0.6 by 2.6 by 2.6 inches (HWD) and weighs only 1.5 ounces. The synology logo is at the top, and the drive information and certifications are at the bottom.
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The synology feature of a boiling pin is that the bedroo is invasive to fall to the concrete floor of the carpet up to 2 meters (6 feet, 7 inches). The drive lacks local encryption, though Windows users can use Badreo using the buttocks. A USB-C port is in the middle of one side. BED Rive has a USB 3.2 General 2 interface with maximum temperature thropped speed 1,050Mbps.
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Synology sells badrio in three capabilities, from 1TB to 4TB. Some SSD makers add an additional premium for their high -capacity units. It is good that the higher the capacity, the higher, the higher the capacity, it will cost per gigabytes.
Using Bedario: Backup, Synchronization, and Transfer Options Galor
In a pinch, Beedrio – which is presented in Exxcing of compatibility with Windows, Macos, Linux, iPados, and iOS – can be used as a normal external SSD in a device’s USB port. (Badrio comes with a USB-C-to-usb-C cable and C-To-A adapter.) However, it is not using this SSD for its best benefit. With the installation of Synology Bedrive Software and setting up a free synology account, the drive changes far more than SSD: Your Personal Backup Center.
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With badrio for desktop software installed on your Windows or Mac Computer, you can select the computer backup and then backup the data by selecting items from the default list (desktop, documents, downloads, music, photos, and video) or making the customs of individual folders. After its initial setup, the backup starts automatically whenever you plug in your bedroo. You can maintain five different versions of each file, and the deleted files deleted from your computer are saved in the folder of the Bedrio’s protected files to easily recover.
With a file synchronous function, you can compatible between two machines (say, your home and office computer) to selected folders. Mobile transfer function shows a QR code that allows you to back up photos on Badreo and Wi-Fi for desktops, which installs your iOS or Android Device (with the Badreo app), which uses the option to secure the iPhones as JPEGs, which instead of using Apple to make Apple. You can back up photos from five mobile devices this way.
You can also transfer the selected photos or videos from the mobile device to the bedrio using the app’s bedropy function, or even the bedup photos are being shot and killed by a straight camera. In addition, you can use the bedding to backup images of your i -cloud storage, SD cards and other outdoor drives.
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Bedario offers a tremendous range of backup and synchronization for users who want to avoid cloud membership or in addition to one. One of my qualifications in working with Bedario is that initially it may take a long time to back up a large photo library on my iPhone. The use of the focused backup feature, which maintains the Badrio app in the foreground, seems to accelerate the process.
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One of the strange things is that when I initially installed the badrio software and tried to set up a snology account, I could not do so. It looked like this was a problem with the cloud filler verification. (I couldn’t agree that I was not a robot, and whenever I checked the box, it would boot me.) I used my editor’s Synology account for a few days, when I tried to compile my account again. Suddenly, I succeeded.
Synology backs badrio with a three -year warranty. Although this is a normal length, many SSD manufacturers guarantee their outdoor drives for five years.
Testing Badrio: a relatively slow slow SSD
We test the external SSD using PC Labs’ Windows 10 Storage Tess bed, an desktop in which an Intel Core I9-10980XE is located in a Silvestone case with highly edition CPU. In this system, 48 GBDR 4 Corcer Dominator Ram 3,600MHZ and a NVIDIA GeForce are on a discrete graphics card. We use 10GBPS USB 3.2 General 2 port of the Mother Board to test compatible drives such as Badrio. General 2×2 drives Wee, we test the 2×2 port included by an Oral PCIE extension card.
We kept our usual outdoor solid estate drive through benchmark suit, which includes Crystal Disk Mark 6.0, PC Mark 10 Storage, 3DMark Storage, Black Magic Disc Speed Test, and our folder transfer test. The first three NTFS are conducted on the test bed with a formatted drive, and later run with an Apple MacBook Pro in its ancestral an Exfft format. Crystal DiscMark’s setting speed test drive provides traditional moves of throw pit, which imitates the best condition of large files, direct line transfer. The PC Mark 10 storage tests measures the preparation of SSD for various daily tasks and produces the overall score. Similarly, 3D mark collects the results of numerous tasks related to storage gaming.
Bedriu performed the crystal disk mark’s throwing test, Black Magic Mac -based disk speed test, and our folder copy test as the USB 3.2 general 2 external 2 external SSD expected. But Bedrio’s score on PC Mark 10 storage was nothing but business. It was also a matter of gaming centric 3 mark storage benchmarks.
If you are just using the bedding for backup and file transfer, these deficiencies are thick, but they limit the SSD utility as a normal purpose drive.
Result: A slow but user -friendly backup center
An easy solution to SSD -based backups is a charming idea, so much so that when I was disappointed, first, I could not create a snology account, because, behind my mind, I was considering buying badrio if I remained on his billing. (In addition to the computer on which I am writing this review, I have three home computers, two tablets, and a smartphone.) Apart from the account -creator Snifo, nothing in my test has kept me from the idea. I have plenty of external SSDs, so if I buy a bedroo, I want to use it as a dedicated backup center.
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Consumers with heavy backup requirements want to choose one of the base stop or desktop Nasas rigs that sell synology and other manufacturers, though they have a lack of portability easily.
Bedario has thripped speed to support the file backup and transition, but it is slow to perform the general storage functions, and does not have local encryption. Our editors’ selection general 2 outdoor SSD, the main X9 Pro performed very well in the PC Mark 10 and 3DMark storage benchmarks and includes AES 256 -bit hardware -based encryption. It is much lower than the bedroom on its 2TB and 4TB capabilities, and has a five -year warranty. That said, it does not have many backup options that provide Beedrio.
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The bottom line
Synology Bedrive is not a top actor, but this external SSD is widely successful in its main mission: backup and harmony of folders on your computer and mobile devices.
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About Tony Halfman
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