Performance:
All performance tests were done on a Dell 8600 laptop, with a Pentium M 1.6GHz processor and 512MB 2700 DDR, running Windows XP Home with SP2 installed and all current updates. To put these drives through their paces I used SiSoft Sandra, HD Tach, and some real world data transfers. After each test was performed the laptop was rebooted.
SiSoft Sandra provides a long list of measurements ranging from generalized speeds for read/write and operations per minute for varying file sizes. As you can see in the chart below, the Kanguru Quicksilver drive appears to out perform the other drives in most categories. The StoreJet averaged 9.8 MB/s which is respectable but is just half the speed of the top performer. The performance advantage was split between the ME-910 and Quicksilver, each averaging 18.7 and 19.2 MB/s respectively. These are close enough that I would not say one had out gunned the other.
The HD Tach provides several key performance figures; burst speed, access time, CPU usage and average read speed. As you can see in the chart below, the Kanguru Quicksilver walked away the clear winner.
I was quite surprised by the performance numbers, the Quicksilver drive is plenty fast but it didn’t seem that much faster. The only drive that was close in performance used 5x as much processor! I decided the best thing to do was a real world test, after all this is what most users would be using their drive for. First I wrote approximately 3.2GB of MP3s, which turned out to be 732 songs, to each drive. Then I wrote approximately 8.8GB of movies which were of varying format, 13 movies in all. Then I read the 3.2GB of music back to the laptop. Once again the Quicksilver drive bested the other drives in all but one test.
Overall the StoreJet averaged 8.9MB/s, the ME-910 averaged 12.3 MB/s and the Quciksilver averaged 13.9 MB/s. While the Quicksilver’s advantage over the ME-910 enclosure is slim based on throughput, the nod has to go to the Quicksilver due to the low CPU loading.
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