Yesterday i had a chance to get my hands on a Transcend eSATA casing which was bought by a friend of a friend and was sent to me. The HDD comes with a USB 2.0 Port and a eSATA port with a eSATA cable.
The quality of the casing is decent but installing HDD is a little trouble as you have to screw and unscrew about 12 screws but the HDD is a snug fit inside the casing and the unit does have a cooling fan attached on the side of the casing.
Now the real world test. I installed the casing with a WD 640GB HDD and started a data transfer of 450GB odd from another internal WD 640GB(The transfer generally consisted of files size between 4GB to 10GB). The HDD was connected using eSATA port from the back of the mobo.The speeds varied between 55MBps to a Max of 70MBps. The speeds are as good as the transfer speeds you get between two internal 640GB's.
Will add a few pics of the casing when i get back home along with some snapshots of the DATA Transfer speeds.As for the pricing the Casing is around Rs 1750 in Nehru Place Delhi.
All in all a decent casing but the pricing of the same could have been a little better.
With WD My book standard edition available for Rs 4500 this may look a little expensive coupled with a WD 640 but the real catch is eSATA with excellent transfer speeds. Transfer speeds are almost twice as much as you get on the WD My Book. The max i have seen a WD My Book perform is 25MBps.
So this makes a great choice of peeps looking for a external enclosures to couple with a WD 640.
Remarks: The real world transfer speeds were observed via a nifty little tool known as Tera copy. It shows the current transfer speeds of data being transferred. A must to install in your PC if you consistently copy data from one source to another. It ques the data transfer and shows you the data transfer speeds with a whole lot of other features.
Hope this would help quite a few of you.
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Casing in question :
Link to product web page : Welcome to Transcend Website - StoreJet 35 Ultra
The quality of the casing is decent but installing HDD is a little trouble as you have to screw and unscrew about 12 screws but the HDD is a snug fit inside the casing and the unit does have a cooling fan attached on the side of the casing.
Now the real world test. I installed the casing with a WD 640GB HDD and started a data transfer of 450GB odd from another internal WD 640GB(The transfer generally consisted of files size between 4GB to 10GB). The HDD was connected using eSATA port from the back of the mobo.The speeds varied between 55MBps to a Max of 70MBps. The speeds are as good as the transfer speeds you get between two internal 640GB's.
Will add a few pics of the casing when i get back home along with some snapshots of the DATA Transfer speeds.As for the pricing the Casing is around Rs 1750 in Nehru Place Delhi.
All in all a decent casing but the pricing of the same could have been a little better.
With WD My book standard edition available for Rs 4500 this may look a little expensive coupled with a WD 640 but the real catch is eSATA with excellent transfer speeds. Transfer speeds are almost twice as much as you get on the WD My Book. The max i have seen a WD My Book perform is 25MBps.
So this makes a great choice of peeps looking for a external enclosures to couple with a WD 640.
Remarks: The real world transfer speeds were observed via a nifty little tool known as Tera copy. It shows the current transfer speeds of data being transferred. A must to install in your PC if you consistently copy data from one source to another. It ques the data transfer and shows you the data transfer speeds with a whole lot of other features.
Hope this would help quite a few of you.
Switch
Casing in question :
Link to product web page : Welcome to Transcend Website - StoreJet 35 Ultra
. i think 12 screws is a little too much 
.something with a simple slide could have been better .
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