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
Results
PCMark04
|
Nexstar 350U2 |
SilverRiver |
|
| File Copying |
17.088 MB/s |
17.304 MB/s |
| Application Loading |
5.664 MB/s |
5.620 MB/s |
| XP Startup |
6.803 MB/s |
6.837 MB/s |
| General HDD Usage |
4.731 MB/s |
4.768 MB/s |
Considering it's the same hard drive in both enclosures, it's pretty normal to see the transfer rates approximately the same within a reasonable margin of error. The actual speed is dictated by the transfer rate of the USB2.0 controller.
Sisoft Sandra 2004
|
Nexstar 350U2 |
SilverRiver |
|
| Combined Index |
17822 operations/min |
39586 operations/min |
|
Endurance Factor |
4.1 |
5.8 |
| 512B File Test |
25957 operations/min |
71324 operations/min |
| 32kB File Test |
17465 operations/min |
24821 operations/min |
| 256kB File Test |
4706 operations/min |
5215 operations/min |
| 2MB File Test |
677 operations /min |
681 operations/min |
| 64MB File Test |
24 operations /min |
23 operations/min |
Interesting results were gathered during the SiSoft Sandra test. Seems like the SilverRiver can eek out some better performances during some of the smaller file transfers.
