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With support for two SATA III 2.5" HDDs/SSDs up to 2TB each, the VANTEC NST-225MX-S3 dual drive enclosure offers you a great solution to expand your digital storage. The two drives can be configured in Individual/JBOD/RAID 0/RAID 1 mode to suit your needs for speed, data protection or capacity, while the USB 3.0 host interface provides sufficient bus bandwidth for quick access to your photos, movies and music stored on the drives. A 40mm fan is also built in, helping quickly take heat away and keep your drive running at peak performance. Plus, with the solid yet stylish aluminum housing, this external enclosure will be a seamless addition to any desktop or laptop setup.
The RAID in a box design is simple and ready in seconds
40mm cooling fan with pass thru vents for keep your drives cool
Aluminum frame for good heat dissipation
SATA III 6Gbps for maximum compatibility and speed
Support 2.5" HDD/SSD with height of 7mm to 15mm
Support multiple OS for flexibility and usage
USB 3.0 Ready for SuperSpeed data transfer
USB 3.0 Plug-n-Play connection with no drivers required
Ready for SATA III HDD or SSD
Support USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) for even faster USB 3.0 speed for latest OS
Pros: 4x configuration lots of Raid options Fan can be controlled!
Cons: The 80mm fan is not the best as far as noise on full blast its louder then my 120 and 140mm fans (idle) in my case that are load driven
Overall Review: So, had this unit for a while in RAID 10, with old but proven drives. The drivers are few old ones that I was not using anymore for a few years, and had about 5 of them, so this was perfect to create RAID10 and have good portable backup system (bought about 1 year ago) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 16MB cache Esata was maxed at 100MB/s I believe, which USB3.0 gave better results as you can see, my results are due to old drives but still good strange how my writes are better, which is perfect since most time I am backing up and writing stuff. The design is not optimal for flow. Top bottom air setup is not good for drives that are right in the path of the flow, if the drives were sideways then maybe it would work fine top bottom, but not sure if life of HD's is less if they are designed to be in used in flat setup. Desktop towers have best flow design from the front intake fans. They could have went with a left right approach, possibly dual low profile 80mm one on top one on bottom creating a flow of left to right (horizontal one) and having vents on opposite side along on top The air would at least go through and between the drives extracting the heat. Big plus is the info at the software side especially the advanced settings. For this price I would give this unit 3.5-3.9 out of 5 Crystal DiskMark results of 10 Raid: 4x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 16MB cache ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2012 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 93.265 MB/s Sequential Write : 131.252 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 43.628 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 31.146 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.530 MB/s [ 129.5 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.812 MB/s [ 198.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.564 MB/s [ 137.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.892 MB/s [ 217.7 IOPS]