Arctic Breeze Pro and Breeze Mobile Review

👤by Vinh Thai  Comments 📅04-10-10

Test Results: Arctic Breeze Pro and Arctic Breeze Mobile

Arctic Breeze Pro

The Arctic Breeze Pro has a variable fan speed of 800 to 1,800 RPM. Seeing as the fan’s diameter is 92 mm, at these speeds the fan was not loud at all. Very little motor or bearing noise was heard. The main noise source was the air turbulence, which was not annoying at all.

Airflow was quite generous, and it was similar to that of a typical 92 mm case fan running at the same fan speed.

The USB hub worked very well with various flash media and an external hard drive enclosure. Transfer speeds of the USB hub were identical to that of the USB ports on the motherboards, as benchmarked with HDTune and HD Tach.

The fan itself does not seem to consume too much power. Therefore, most devices plugged to the device should be powered fine. The exception obviously being external 2.5” hard drives without an AC adapter.

As it was mentioned again and again, it is unfortunate that the fan has no grill. I happened to bump my hand into the fan’s blades many times when plugging a USB device to the USB hub. It did not hurt that much; the shock was more uncomfortable. Additional caution by the consumer will no doubt avoid such situations, but a consumer should not need to adapt to the product. Besides, this situation could be easily avoided by using a fan grill.

The Arctic Breeze Pro in action

Arctic Breeze Mobile

The Arctic Breeze Mobile, as it name suggests, is meant for portable applications, such as with notebooks and mobile USB power adapters. If you are thinking of carrying this fan around, there might be a small problem. The fan itself does not have a frame, making the fins potentially vulnerable to breaking when tucked inside a laptop case or such. Although the fins are made of a fairly strong plastic, the risk of breaking is still there.

The Arctic Breeze Mobile utilises a 92 mm fan spinning at a fixed 1,700 RPM. Bearing noise was smooth and noise from air turbulence is easily tolerated. Airflow is generous and it should be enough to keep you cool.

Without a doubt, Arctic’s name for these products is fair; they really do give a gentle Breeze.