Performance:
Test
System:
Asus P5K Deluxe (P35 motherboard)
Hitachi 80Gb 7200RPM SATA Drive with 8mb Cache.
(HDS722580VLSA80)
Western Digital Elements external USB2.0 - 250Gb
drive (IDE>USB – WDE1U2500N) Pre installed
HD
| Sandra
2007 |
Physical
Disks Read Test |
External
Drive 64Mb Read |
External
Drive 64Mb Write |
| X
Craft 360 USB |
26
MB/s |
26214
kB/Sec |
22938
kb/sec |
| X
Craft 360 eSATA |
56
MB/s |
57890
kB/Sec |
31676
kb/sec |
| WD
Elements |
13
MB/s |
13107
kB/Sec |
13107
kb/sec |
| Internal
SATA |
56
MB/s |
|
|
Our
choice of comparison product in this test is not
here to provide an identical “apples to
apples” with the Cooler Master enclosure.
It is here to show the difference in performance
between a DIY external drive using the latest
technology (SATA/USB2.0/eSATA) compared to a reasonably
expensive pre built retail external drive (IDE/USB2.0).
When
looking at the results we can see that when using
the same interface there is a huge difference
in performance between the WD product and the
Cooler Master enclosure. The read test is twice
the performance on the X Craft and write test
is not far off being double as well. Moving to
eSATA we can see that the read test is four times
faster on the CM product and the write test shows
a difference of 9000kB/second. These speeds are
practically identical to an internal drive, showing
that when using eSATA there isn't any performance
penalty when compared to a standard internal SATA
drive.
