Brilliant eCombo 2.5 inch eSATA/USB External Caddy
"The Brilliant eCombo eSATA/USB2.0 external enclosure offers a really cheap and easy way of converting a redudant 2.5" notebook drive, to a portable hard drive that you can carry around."
Posted on Jun 6, 2007, 1:00 AM UTC by Winston Chim
Test Setup and Installation
Test Setup
For our tests we used an full-blooded system armed to its teeth. Check out the specs below. The Asus P5K Deluxe motherboard has 2 eSATA connectors which is perfect for testing this portable enclosure.
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Test Setup (Socket 775)
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| Motherboard | Asus P5K Deluxe (P35) |
| CPU Default |
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz (9x266) |
| Overclocked | N/A |
| Ram | OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 SLI-Ready 2Gb Kit |
| Video Card | ATI Radeon X1950XTX 512Mb PCIe |
| SLI Mode | N/A |
| Video Drivers | Catalyst 7.2 Drivers |
| Chipset Drivers | Intel INF Chipset drivers on CD |
| Hard Drive | Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB (8Mb cache) |
| CD/DVD ROM | Pioneer 111D Dual Layer DVD±RW Writer |
| Cooling | Thermaltake Tower 102 modified with 2x80mm fans |
| Sound Card | Onboard HD Audio |
| PSU | FSP Blue Storm 700W |
| LAN | Onboard Gigabit Ethernet |
| CRT Monitor | 19" Samsung DynaFlat SM997MB |
| LCD Monitor | 19" Samsung 940BF TFT Monitor |
| OS | Windows XP with SP2, DirectX 9.0c |
Installation
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Procedures
To test the speed difference between eSATA and USB2.0, we used several benchmarking utilities. These included the disk test found on Sisoft Sandra ... see below
- Sisoft Sandra XI
- Physical Disk Test
- Removeable Storage Test
We also transferred a complete 1.6Gb ISO file disk to disk, and manually recorded the time taken to complete the task. Windows XP with service pack 2 and DirectX 9.0c was used as our operating system.
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