- 3.5"
- Steel and Plastic
solid raid enclosure
12/08/2012
This review is from: StarTech.com S354UFER Steel and Plastic 3.5" Black 4 Drive eSATA USB FireWire SATA RAID Enclosure
Pros:
Simple to setup and configure
Contains power cords for high voltage outlets
Cool and relatively quiet operation
No need for esata port multiplier if you're using RAID
Cons:
Slow - write speeds are 20-25% of read speeds. I have a 4 drive RAID 5 setup where each drive is capable of ~90MB/s transfer. Read speeds reflect this, sustaining over 200MB/s. Write speeds sustain a maximum of 36MB/s over esata. My software 3 drive RAID 0 blows this out of the water sustaining over 500MB/s read/write. The software array has faster drives, but even a single 10 year old drive should perform faster than this enclosure when it comes to writes.
Overall Review:
Would I buy it again? Maybe. It does a good job of redundant backup storage, but it's not winning any speed awards.
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