Test System
We evaluated all of our test subjects for USB and eSATA transfer speeds on HDTach RW Version 3.0.1.0. We tested the operating modes FAST (RAID 0) SAFE (RAID 1) and BIG (Span). We used the Tom’s Hardware reference platform as test platform, details of which can be found in the table below.
| Intel platform 775 | Asus P5E3 Deluxe, Rev.1.03G |
| Intel X38, BIOS: 0810 (02/11/2007) |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (65 nm Conroe core) @ 2.26 GHz |
| RAM | 2x 1024 MB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 |
| eSATA controller | JMicron JMB363 |
| System hard drive | Seagate Barracuda 7200.9, 160 GB |
| 7,200 RPM, SATA/300, 8 MB Cache |
| Test hard drive 1 | Samsung HD321KJ, 320GB |
| 7.200 RPM, SATA/300, 16 MB Cache |
| Test hard drive 2 | Western Digital WD360, 36 GB |
| 10,000 RPM, SATA/150, 8 MB Cache |
| DVD-ROM | Samsung SH-D163A , SATA150 |
| Graphics card | Gigabyte Radeon HD 3850 GV-RX385512H |
| GPU: 670 MHz |
| Memory: 512 MB DDR3 (830 MHz, 256 Bit) |
| Sound card | Integrated |
| Power supply | Coolermaster RS-850-EMBA, ATX 12V V2.2, 850 Watt |
| Operating system | Windows Vista Enterprise SP1 |
| DirectX 10 | DirectX 10 (Vista-Standard) |
| DirectX 9 | Version: April 2007 |
| Graphics driver | ATI Radeon Version 7.12 |
| Intel chip set driver | Version 6.9.1.1001 (20/02/2008) |
| JMicron chip set driver | Version 1.17.15.0 (24/03/2007) |