Storage Solutions How good are Pibox enclosures / Docking station ?

PiBOX India, USB 3.0 Hard Drive Docking Station (USB to SATA Docking Station) with 16TB+ Drive Support for 2.5 Inch & 3.5 Inch HDD SSD- Supports SATA II, III and UASP with ASM225CM- Top-Loading Design

Bought this in the sale.
Quality wise looks good.
However the write speeds are capped to 32MB\s on my 2.5inch 5400rpm drive.
I dont know if this is my hdd bottlenecking or the chipset in this.
Have wriiten around 50gb 4k videos in one go.

Update -its 32MB per sec
 
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If it is a recent 2.5 inch HDD (say older than 2016) and in good condition, speeds should reach around 100 MB/s.

A little older HDD, say 2012, may have speeds capped at 80 MB/s.

I would suggest you check the USB ports. Sometimes even though we plug into a USB 3.0 port, we get only USB 2.0 speeds. And your speeds show that it is less than USB 2.0 speeds.

Also check if any drivers are available in the official ASMedia website and update them.

The average benchmark is as follows:

2.5 inch HDD @ 5400 RPM - 100 MB/s
3.5 inch HDD @ 7200 RPM - 200 MB/s
SATA SSD - Saturate the connection fully. (400-500 MB/s)

Thank you for posting an update.
 
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awestorr said:
However the write speeds are capped to 32mbps on my 2.5inch 5400rpm drive.
I dont know if this is my hdd bottlenecking or the chipset in this.
Have wriiten around 50gb 4k videos in one go
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Either the usb connection/cable is not connected properly/defective or your 5400rpm drive is more than 70-80% filled which on SMR hdd will result in speeds dropping to usb 2 levels.
@badwhitevision you will not see consistent 100MB/s read or write speeds on SMR drives (which all 2.5" drives & most 3.5" consumer drives are nowadays) unless they are less than 50-60% filled.
 
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