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Crystalmark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using V3.0 x64.
The CrystalMark results are about what we would expect for an eSATA enclosure. The Sequential results are the most impressive, rivaling a number of SSDs out there.
We have been using HDTach for many years now and always find it is an invaluable benchmark to ascertain potential levels of performance. HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.
Our HDTach test showed an average speed of 198.1 Mb/s which should translate into some fast real world transfer speeds.
The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.
Another impressive set of results for the InfoSafe – we look forward to seeing how it performs in our real world tests.
For our real world tests we used a single 2.09GB .AVI file and a mixed file folder making up 2.64GB altogether. In the test we copied these to and from the RAID volume. Our test system featured a Corsair F40 Solid State drive connected to one of our motherboard's SATA 6Gbps ports.
The Startech enclosure performed well in our real world tests, re-enforcing the strong results from the synthetic benchmarks we performed.
I think its not a bad price really, raid options on a 4 bay drive? seems a good deal. shame about the fan, would it be replaceable you think?
Good review. but I wouldnt buy this due to the fan noise. no need for it now. you can get cheap fans that are quiet. if they need higher air flow. then reduce spin speeds and add two.
I hope to see them sorting this out in future models.