Thermaltake BlacX 5G HDD Docking Station Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Benching our Seagate Barracuda drive on its own gives us a baseline performance that we will use to compare linear (sequential) read speeds.
With the speed of USB3.0, our Barracuda hard drive performed just as well as it did when connected directly to the test system via a pure SATA connection topping out at around 200MB/s
