Akasa Integral S 3.5″ External USB3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
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As with all enclosures and backplanes, they’re not designed to enhance the performance of the installed drive, but this is not to mean that the performance experienced should be that much worse off than having the drive installed into a system directly.
Across the board, the read speeds experienced were very much on par with having the drive connected directly to our test system. This clearly shows that the controller inside the enclosure and the USB bus don’t restrict the drives performance at all, which is crucial for a quality product.
