Testing Rig:

Testing:

During the testing of this enclosure I will be running a low-level benchmark and timing file transfers. For the benchmarks I will be using HD Tune, a free benchmarking utility. For the timing of the file transfers I will be using a stopwatch. We time the transfers with a stop watch because we wish to ascertain the actual amount of time it takes to transfer the file while Windows is running. Low-level file transfers get closer to the actual physical performance of a drive, but they do not reflect how long you sit in front of your PC waiting for the transfer to finish. I will be using another CP Technologies enclosure as a benchmark, the CP-USH-300. I will also compare the benchmarks of the Thermaltake Vion. I will first display the results using USB, then the results of the eSATA benches. Let’s see what happened.

So what were the results? As you can see, the CP-UE-225 was in the middle of the pack with the USB benchmarks. It did have the lowest access time and burst rate, but seemed to offset this with the highest CPU Usage. But it still did well overall. Besides what I can only describe as a hiccup in the 100 MB file transfer, it kept up with the rest of our testing group. I feel that it really shone in the eSATA portion of the test. It again had the highest burst rate and lowest access time, but had none of the hiccups it had with the USB portion of the test. I would say that this enclosure is a very good due to its ability to use eSATA. Let’s take a look at the final word on this product.