Benchmarks
Hardware Setup
| CPU |
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ |
| Motherboard |
Chaintech VNF3-250 |
| RAM |
Corsair TwinX 2x 256MB PC-3200 |
| Hard Drive 1 |
2 Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB (Striped Array) |
| Hard Drive 2 |
160 GB Western Digital 8MB Cache |
Software Setup
Microsoft Windows XP Pro with Service Pack 1 nVidia Unified Driver 4.24
Operating System
Chipset Drivers
Scores
PCMark04
|
Nexstar 350U2 |
SATA |
|
| File Copying |
17.088 MB/s |
58.907 MB/s |
| Application Loading |
5.664 MB/s |
6.700 MB/s |
| XP Startup |
6.803 MB/s |
8.993 MB/s |
| General HDD Usage |
4.731 MB/s |
6.363 MB/s |
Obviously we can't expect the USB2.0 of the Nexstar to keep up with SATA or even IDE for that matter. But checking out the scores, we see that it holds is own in general HDD usage. For backing up software, the speed should be sufficient enough.
Sisoft Sandra 2004
|
Nexstar 350U2 |
SATA |
|
| Combined Index |
17822 operations/min |
61828 operations/min |
|
Endurance Factor |
4.1 |
5.0 |
| 512B File Test |
25957 operations/min |
134994 operations/min |
| 32kB File Test |
17465 operations/min |
12446 operations/min |
| 256kB File Test |
4706 operations/min |
4455 operations/min |
| 2MB File Test |
677 operations /min |
1155 operations/min |
| 64MB File Test |
24 operations /min |
82 operations/min |
Surprising results from the SiSoft Sanrda Removable Storage Benchmark. Seems like the NexStar 350U2 is good for transfering relatively small files. Files equal to and smaller than 256kB seem to transfer faster than an SATA drive. Anything larger though and the speed drastically lowers.
