Review: Orico iFolder Go portable SSD

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The Orico iFolder Go is a portable SSD that's designed to look like those folder icons on your desktop. Storage capacity is from 128GB to 4TB. The company advertises 5Gbps transfer speed so that's USB 3.

At the time of review, there's only the 1TB storage capacity and the price is USD 199.99.

Several colours are available and I highly recommend going with the more colourful ones.

The purchase comes with the SSD, landyard, user guide and USB-C data transfer cable.

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The USB-C data transfer cable is well made, thick enough, but quite short. The folder-like design does look pretty cool. It would be great if the SSD can be even smaller, and look even more like a real folder.

Transfer speed for read and write will be around 300MB/s or higher during the first few minutes before it throttles down to what you see above in the screenshot.

After a few minutes, I measured write speed of around 90-120MB/s and read speed of 360MB/s. Transfer speed is fast enough for 1080P video editing but not for 4K. So the general use case for this SSD is going to be for external storage, backup purposes.

If you need faster transfer speed, you can go with the Orico BookDrive P10Plus which I've reviewed recently and that's much faster, but with a simpler looking design.

The Orico iFolder Go is available for purchase from Orico online store and Amazon (use code WR5PLUS1TB for 10% off).