De mannen van DeezTech hebben vandaag een review geschreven over de Evergreen Fireline 20GB hardeschijf. De Evergreen 20GB is een portable hardeschijf gebruikmakend van de Firewire interface. Hierom zullen de computers waartussen je bestanden wilt uitwisselen beide over een Firewire poort moeten beschikken, niet echt een plus punt dus. Daarnaast is de prijs van deze 20GB ruwweg 3x zo duur als 20GB IDE en 3x zo sloom, maar als je persé een goede portable HD wilt is dat de prijs die je ervoor moet betalen:
As you can see from the numbers, it is slower than the ATA 33 drive as well as Sandra's baseline for UDMA drives. For backup purposes, or for housing a sizeable MP3 library you can share with friends, it is still fast enough to make it useable. Sure, it isn't up to speed with ATA 33/66/100 standards, but it makes up for it's lack of raw speed with the fact you can unplug 20GB or more of storage, toss it in a backpack or briefcase and go. Can your Zip drive do that?
All in all, this is an awesome product that gives you a lot of storage in a small portable case, but at the $250 price tag it might not be for all of us. Given the fact that you can pick up 20 gig drives in the neighborhood of $90 on sale that are almost 3x as fast in transfer rates, it makes this external a bit hard to recommend to anyone other than traveling professionals who might need that kind of portable space, or for rich bastards that have run out of internal storage slots. The only thing keeping it from a perfect score is the speed.