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STORAGE DEVICES

Soyo SlimEX Platinum Review
By: James Steele
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    2007-10-30

    Table of Contents:
  • Soyo SlimEX Platinum Review
  • About the SlimEX Platinum
  • Opening the package
  • Using the drive
  • Testing and conclusion

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    Soyo SlimEX Platinum Review - Using the drive


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    Using the drive was pretty simple. I plugged it into my Windows XP Pro machine and was greeted by a friendly pop-up:




    Windows automatically loaded the right drivers for it and assigned a drive letter all on its own. Then it was just a matter of opening Windows Explorer to see the device for myself:




    In the above image, you can see that the new device has been configured as drive E: in my system. Still being a stickler for details, I checked the properties of the newly installed device:





    And there we have it. In less than 10 seconds, I added nearly 20 GB of storage to my machine that I can take with me wherever I go.

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