Conclusion
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Here we can see the inside of the enclosure with and without a harddrive installed. There is not much room after installing a drive as we can see and logically the HD should get hot after running awhile. But the aluminum kind of lets the air out so it doesn’t get to terribly hot.
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On the left picture we just have the enclosure on the stand but the screws are not mounted yet. On the right instead its ready and running so we decided to do some testing on it.
Testing:
We tested this enclosure with HDspeed that measures the average reading speed and the harddrive in the testing is a Seagate UDMA133 8mb cache. After some testing we came pretty much to the same conclusion as with the Silverriver. We got up around 2100kb/s when the normal IDE gets up to around 56 mb/s so it’s not nearly as fast as normal IDE but this is not what this is for either. It is supposed to be an addition to your computer which you can plug in when you need it and remove it when you want to.
Conclusion:
This is a great product. It has high quality aluminum which lets the heat through and you can even feel it is very good quality when you feel it the first time. Speedwise it is very good for a external HD enclosure. You can plug it in when you need it and just rip it out if you ara in a hurry and need it. No drivers are needed if you don’t have Win98 so installation is also a piece of cake. The only bad thing that I found was that the small screws that puts the top and bottom cover together is a mess to get on with big hands or even with small ones. Maybe a rail of somekind would have been a better solution. We give this 4 out of 5 for a nice enclosure which really holds the quality Vantec promises.
Pros:
+ Small
+ Foot included
+ Easy to install
+ Aluminum
Cons:
- Very small screws that need to be mounted to keep it together.
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