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:
CPU：AMD Athlon (tm) Processor 3000+ 1.81GHz,
RAM：
usb drive environment: SanDisk
network:
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 | < | 1.19MB | 441KB | 12．9MB |
| 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. Ceedo，MojoPac，PRAYAYA 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 | IE | IE |
| business | OpenOffice | FoxitPDF | Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office |
| chat | LiveMessenger | Skype | Skype | Skype |
| Email | OE | Foxmail | OE | OE |
| security | XOFTSpyware | AVAST | AVAST | Clam AntiVirus |
| media | Winamp | DVD Identifier | Faststone | iTunes |
| image | Irfanview | XnView | Faststone | CS |
| IT exploitation | none | none | none | JBuild |
| game | Super DX-Ball | Super DX-Ball | Super DX-Ball | Sudoku |
| 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!!!
