To test the enclosure I will be running a few simple tests to see how well it transfers data, how long it takes to transfer, its max burst rate, as wall as how much work it takes the cpu to transfer the data.

File Transfer (Measured in Seconds)

Test	Kingwin EZ-Dock	Thermaltake Vi-on	COOLMAX 3.5 Enclosure
10MB	.3	.5	1
100MB	6.3	6.5	6
500MB	31	28	30

 

HD Tune eSATA

Test	Kingwin EZ-Dock	Thermaltake Vi-on	COOLMAX 3.5 Enclosure
Average Transfer Rate in MBs	61.2	61.3	63.8
Access Times in MBs	13.3	13.3	13.3
Burst Rate in MBs	97.1	99.9	146.3
CPU Usage	6.3	1.8%	1.7

 

 

File Transfer (Measured in Seconds)

Test	Kingwin EZ-Dock	Thermaltake Vi-on	COOLMAX 3.5 Enclosure
10MB	.3	.3	.3
100MB	6.3	3.5	4
500MB	15	7	16

With this we can see that the COOLMAX 3.5" SATA Leather Hard Drive Enclosure preformed fairly well compared to most enclosures during the tests. It did have an impressive burst rate of 146.3MB, the highest burst rate we have seen on any enclosure yet.

Now lets see what the verdict is: