Wednesday, June 11, 2008

compare of intelligent usb drive platform, it's now or never

Intelligent usb drive platform

——PRAYAYA V3 & U3 & CEEDO & MojoPac

There are so many numeral products nowadays, every expert is talking about memory architecture such as NAND, NOR, SLC, MLC, etc, then how about we green hand? Of course we also need to recept this technology, now, I’ll compare several kind of intelligent usb drive platforms which are rather popular nowadays, if you want your usb drive can not only save documents, if you want to expand your usb drive function, pls check to know how to turn your usb drive to a PC. Hum` let’s begin.

Testing environment:

System: XP Professional(Version 2002)+SP2

Hardware environment:


CPUAMD Athlon (tm) Processor 3000+ 1.81GHz,
RAM
512M+256M
usb drive environment: SanDisk 8G


network:
1M Broadband

1. Download & installing
(1)Download manner

category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

from official site

30days trial

No trial

30days trial

30days trial

File capacity

<5M

1.19MB

441KB

129MB

Download time

<3min

nonsupport

>5Min

>60Min

Other download link

30days trial

nonsupport

support

support

Summary: U3 don’t supply trial, and need to use with a SanDisk usb drive together, this means we need to purchase one that usb drive first, but can’t collocate it ourselves. Mojopac request usb drive having enough speed, it will not be installed normally if your usb drive is not a high-speed 2.0. Ceedo & Prayaya V3 are smarter, Ceedo only supply install file for download( including several download websites), PRAYAYA V3 official supply several kind of installing file such as zip, rar, or iso, you can choose the installing manner as you like; attention, download time will be rather different via your network.

(2). installing

category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Installing time

<2min

nonsupport

>20Min

>20Min

Installing manner

Usb drive mass production, online installation, Local install, Zero install

Usb drive mass production

Online install

Online install

Summary: U3, Ceedo & MojoPac supply standard installation, users will not have any question while selecting, we choose options as our need. PRAYAYA V3 supply several formats files to download, but it may cause user don’t know which one to download and install.


2. Run
(1). starting: portable platform need smart and convenient starting manner to meet user’s different request.

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Autorun

support

Support

Support

nonsupport

Dbclick run

support

Support

Support

support

Summary: U3 will divide usb drive into 2 subarea, one is CD-rom, the other is common area, this can prevent user deleting U3 platform by mistake. PRAYAYA V3 and Ceedo can make iso file itself, MojoPac will virtualize usb drive into a C disk area, which can be seen while running Mojopac.


(2). startup waiting time: portable platform will be switched between different PCs, so startup is a familiar operation.

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

First startup time

8s

7s

67s

78s

Second startup time

4s

3s

3s

3s

Summary: Ceedo and MojoPac will collocate themselves the first time running, U3 and PRAYAYA V3 have finished their collocation after installed. So Ceedo and Mojopac will need much more time than U3 and Prayaya V3 at the first time starting.

3. install and uninstall(choose one software to test in each category)

(1). install and uninstall manner

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Manual Installation

support

Nonsupport

Support(rely on software)

Support

Supply install package

Support

Support

Support

None

User make install package

support

Support(need to study)

nonsupport

None

Summary: software of U3 platform need to be made as U3 criterion. To reduce users’ study cost, MojoPac don’t supply install package. CeedoMojoPacPRAYAYA V3 support manual installation, MojoPac support software original installation program, Ceedo rely to Argo program itself to support, Prayaya V3 need to be installed in a host, then copy to Prayaya V3 program catalog and append it manually.


(2). Download quantity of official website

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Official website

<100

>100

<100

nonsupply

frequently-used software

supply

few

Supply(nonsupport msn)

Supply(nonsupport msn)

Summary: U3 official site supply many software to download, but don’t supply many software running in windows such as MSN, live messenger, etc; Mojopac official site don’t supply software download.


(3). uninstall manner

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Common uninstall

Support

support

Support

Support

Manual uninstall

support

Nonsupport

support

Support

Summary: U3 only supply common uninstall


4. software running(choose two software to test in each category):
(1). software running manner:

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

autostart

support

support

support

Support

Turn off autostart

support

support

support

support

Summary: about starting manner, MojoPac is very similar to windows system, Ceedo support Quick Launch Bar, which is also very convenient, U3 and PRAYAYA V3 don’t have click start at the moment.


(2).software data saving:

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Useful info saving

support

support

support

support

Settings saving

support

support

support

support

Summary: software data in these platforms can be saved and read from computer to computer, because I’m used to using Window Live Messenger, especially use it in these platforms, I found that Prayaya V3 is the only one who can support Live messenger account and password saving.


(3). software close:

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Closing time

3s

3s

5s

7s

Summary: if you run software in portable platform, you need to save relative info in usb drive, but don’t leave any info in host computer, all these 5 platforms can do this so far, but U3 don’t support registry, software which need to save in registry must save relative info in configuration files.


5. close platform
(1). normally close platform

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Eject usb drive while closing platform

support

support

support

Sometimes nonsupport

Summary: portable platform will save software collocation while closing, then logout windows, we can understand software coding principle via comparing closing time.


(2). abnormally close platform (pull out usb drive, power off, etc)

Category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

Save info if is stopped abnormally

Can’t

Can’t

Can’t

Can’t

Summary: it appears that we should close platform normally, it’s best that usb drive will save automatically after each period of time, just like Microsoft word auto save text.


6. supporting software

category

PRAYAYA V3

U3

Ceedo

MojoPac

browser

IE

Firefox

Maxthon

GreenBrowser,

HeatSeak

NetScape,

Opera

……

Firefox

Maxthon

Greenbrowser

HeatSeak

Opera

……

IE

Firefox

Maxthon

Flock Browser

Opera

……

IE

Firefox

Opera……

business

OpenOffice

WPSOffice

7-zip

AbiWord

CoolPDF

SumatraPDF

UltraEdit

WinRAR

……

FoxitPDF

OpenOffice

NoteBook

UltraEdit

EditPat

WinRAR

……

Microsoft Office

OpenOffice

NoteBook

UltraEdit

EditPat

……

Microsoft Office

OpenOffice

UltraEdit

……

chat

LiveMessenger

Skype

Gtalk

YahooMessenger

AOL

ICQ

Pidgin

Miranda

……

Skype

Gtalk

YahooMessenger

QQ

AOL

ICQ

Pidgin

Miranda

……

Skype

Gtalk

YahooMessenger

QQ

AOL

ICQ

Pidgin

Miranda

……

Skype

Gtalk

YahooMessenger

AOL

ICQ

Pidgin

Miranda

……

Email

OE

Foxmail

Thunderbird

……

Foxmail

Thunderbird

……

OE

Foxmail

Thunderbird

……

OE

Foxmail

Thunderbird

……

security

XOFTSpyware

1-2-3 Spyware

Vault Lite

SignupShield

ClaimWin





……

AVAST

XOFTSpyware

1-2-3 Spyware

Vault Lite

SignupShield

ClaimWin

……

AVAST

XOFTSpyware

1-2-3 Spyware

Vault Lite

SignupShield

ClaimWin

……

Clam AntiVirus

ewidoanti-spyware

Anonymizer

eWallet

Ad-Aware SE

SpybotSearch and Destroy

……

media

Winamp

Faststone

Zoom Player

Xmplay

VLC

KMPlayer

……

DVD Identifier

Zoom Player

MusicIP

WebcamXP

……

Faststone

Winamp

Xmplay

Zoom Player

GOM Media

Audacity

VLC

……

iTunes

Quicktime

Real Player

WindowMedia

Winamp

Nero

PowerDVD

……

image

Irfanview

Picasa

GIMP

Cpicture

……

XnView

Irfanview

ACDSee

……

Faststone

Irfanview

Preclick

XnView

……

CS

Irfanview

Picasa

AutoCAD

GIMP

……

IT exploitation

none

none

none

JBuild

Eclipse

J2EE

MySQL

Python

VS 2003

EMACS

……

game

Super DX-Ball

Sudoku

SolSuite

……

Super DX-Ball

Sudoku

SolSuite

Raytrace

Noble Poker

……

Super DX-Ball

AxySnake

Chicken Invader

MoneyMania

SkyMaze

……

Sudoku

Steam

Prey

Titan Quest

Unreal

Warcraft

FEAR

NHL

……

Summary: MojoPac take much convenience to many IT developer, developers can design their program at home. PRAYAYA V3 support a lot of software and collocate program itself, which is also the only one usb drive platform supporting MSN account and password saving from one computer to another, but only support a few games, so I suggest add some familiar games to meet we green hand’s request; You can make u3p format software if you study U3 for a week; Ceedo can install program via Argo, but it’s chargeable. By the way, each platform supporting much more other software than I list, I just choose some software I usually use to test.

At last, I’d like to tell everybody, if you want your usb drive read-write speed be faster, rapidly turn your usb drive to NTFS format subarea, LOL, let windows FAT32 go to hell!!!