Thermaltake BlacX Duet HDD Docking Station Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
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Benching our Seagate Barracuda drive on its own gives us a baseline performance that we will use to compare linear (sequential) read speeds.
Starting off with the dock connected via eSATA, we do notice a slight dip in performance with linear speeds topping out at 156.6MB/s.
Whilst eSATA saw some drops in peformance, the story sadly for USB was even worse, with speeds topping out at a mere 43MB/s, we experienced a whopping 79% loss in linear read speed, which does make us wonder why USB2.0 was chosen over the faster USB3.0 interface.
