In Win ‘NA 3.5″ Hard Drive Enclosure
Apr 2nd, 2009 | By JaredThe following system was used for testing:
CPU: Intel E8400
MB: Biostar I45
RAM: G.Skill PI Black PC6400
Video: Biostar GeForce 9600GT
PSU: Ultra X3 1000W
HD: WD 80GB IDE/WD 250GB SATA
DVD-Rom: Lite-On 18x DVD Burner – SATA
Cases: Cooler Master HAF932
OS: Microsoft Windows XP w SP2
Since there really isn’t any sort of testing so to speak for the enclosure itself, we just want to make sure that the enclosure itself isn’t causing any hindrance to the transfer rates. For this I ran HD Tune 2.55 while using both the USB 2.0 and eSATA connections. The last test was on the same hard drive while attached to SATA internally.
The main thing to take away from this is that the ‘NA does not hinder at all in performance. You can see that while USB has a more level transfer rate, the eSATA allows for a much higher average, burst rate and uses less CPU resources.
The only major difference aside from these different runs is with temperatures. Obviously temps are going to be a little higher inside the enclosure with only a 60mm fan as opposed to the 230mm fan blowing right over it as it does in the HAF 932. While the included 60mm fan is thermally controlled, if it ever got to 100% I’m not sure but all throughout testing I never heard any noise so you don’t have to worry about a noisy fan on your desktop.
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