Performance

Test system:

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
• Asus P5E3
• 1GB Kingston DDR3 RAM
• EVGA 7900GS
• Western Digital JD 80GB SATA drive
• Enermax Infiniti 720W

The drive installed in the Silverstone MS05 is a Seagate Momentus 5400.3 120GB drive.

USB-HD Tune

Sandra-USB connection- File System Performance

Sandra-USB connection- Physical Drive Performance

Sandra-USB connection- Removable Storage Performance

eSATA-HD Tune

Sandra-eSATA connection- FileSystem Performance

Sandra-eSATA connection- Physical Drive Performance

Sandra-eSATA connection- Removable Storage Performance

Direct SATA-HD Tune

Sandra Direct SATA connection- File System Performance

Sandra-Direct SATA connection- Physical Drive Performance

Sandra- Direct SATA connection- Removable Storage Performance

Over the USB connection, the MS05 can give a sequential read speed of over 30MB/s and a sequential write speed of about 25MB/s, which is very good for a 2.5” USB drive, though strangely when it comes to random reading the drive loses about 30% of its top speed and only achieves around 20-21MB/s, but the write speed is unaffected. Over the eSATA connection the MS05 does not restrict the performance capabilities of the drive at all, giving us the same performance results we recorded from connecting the drive directly on a SATA port. Using a faster drive with the eSATA connection will certainly give better performance results, but USB speed will be unaffected.