| SilverStone Treasure TS07 USB 3.0 Enclosure |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Storage | |
| Written by Marc Fruchtman | |
| Wednesday, 12 October 2011 | |
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Test Results: ATTO DISK BENCHMARKThe ATTO Disk Benchmark program is free, and offers a comprehensive set of test variables to work with. In terms of disk performance, it measures interface transfer rates at various intervals for a user-specified length and then reports read and write speeds for these spot-tests. There are some minor improvements made to the 2.46 version of the program that allow for test lengths up to 2GB, but all of our benchmarks are conducted with 256MB total length. ATTO Disk Benchmark requires that an active partition be set on the drive being tested. Please consider the results displayed by this benchmark to be basic bandwidth speed performance indicators. The RocketRaid 2720 will allow us to test a single disk when configured as JBOD, and establish the upper baseline of transfer speed.
Here we see the baseline for ADATA S511 using the Highpoint RocketRaid 2720SGL. If you had a chance to read the ADATA S511 review, please note that the RocketRaid 2720 does not perform quite as well in single disk JBOD as compared to an integrated Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s controller in AHCI. But it is far better than the the Marvel controller on the EVGA SR-2.
The SilverStone USB 3.0 Enclosure powers out a respectable 234MB/s read, and 187MB/s write. Now lets look at the N004 using the on-board USB 3.0 and compare it directly to the SilverStone.
We see sequential read of 196MB/sec and writes of 137MB/sec as our baseline for the EVGA SR-2 USB 3.0.
Here we see that the SilverStone TS07 slightly outperforms the N004. This should not be terribly surprising because it turns out the N004 uses the asmedia ASM1051 bridge chip, a slightly older generation of the chip used in the SilverStone enclosure.
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Comments
Modern mechanical drives will soon reach over 200MB/s STR so this enclosure will be a bottleneck for new huge drives.
THanks for the review!
PS: Does it support drives larger than 2TB drives? I see a lot of enclosures on newegg that say they only support up to a 2TB drive, however I thought the only hardware limitation is LBA, and 48-bit LBA has been around for like 10 years now so all enclosures should support 48-bit LBA.
Maybe it's because of the microprocessor's internal firmware that some enclosures have this limitation.
Personally I prefer a hard drive dock/caddy so you can plug hard drives in and swap them out for other hard drives. Cost about the same too.
While a dock is very useful, it does not protect the drive.
Docks are great for SSDs and drives that are already protected.
Most 3.5" drives have exposed electronics, making it pretty useless for a dock.
I have found that my hard drives require basically zero added protection. I have bought a couple of $2 cases for them to use while they're not plugged in (thus offering just as much protection as an enclosure). This is vastly superior to having a single drive enclosure for every hard drive. Add to this that many cases now come with hot swap bays, and often I can just bring a hard drive to a client or friend and it will just plug into their system. It's also less expensive to just purchase another hard drive over another complete enclosure, and I don't have the added mess of multiple power supplies and multiple USB cables. It's way easier to pull a hard drive and plug another in compared to having to pull out another enclosure and power brick and plug them in.
It's FAR from useless for 3.5" drives.
I am not sure I understand your $2 cover idea...
Your removing the cover when you plug them in?
I don't think that is a very good idea for "Most Users".
Its fair to say, that it is useful to have a docking station for hard drives that are protected. If you can get $2 covers for your hard drives that also work during docking, then a docking station does make good sense. Otherwise, its just a failure waiting to happen for the "average user". Perhaps you are willing to take that risk.
The ease of use of a docking station with "protected" drives is apparent.
Your situation applies to a very small segment of people who happen to have hot swap bays. For the general population who don't even open their cases, a USB enclosure makes a lot of sense.
I would even say HD "Enclosure" with a docking station makes sense.
But a bare drive, that you need to expose and dock... really ?