TESTING METHODOLOGY

   Complicating things is not really our way so once again our testing procedure is almost the same as the one we use with 3.5" external docking stations. However since we are talking about an SATA II compatible dual bay 2.5" external enclosure this time over we will be using the already mentioned HGST 7K750 SATA III hard disk drives. Our standard selection of benchmark suites is used here as well for both JBOD and RAID 0 testing including the famous HD Tach RW (Long Bench 32mb Zones), HD Tune Pro (read/write -when possible- speeds), Sisoftware Sandra Pro (Read/Write - also when possible- speeds), AIDA64 (Linear Read/Random Read), Crystal Disk Mark x64 (100MB/1000MB read/write speeds) and finally the quite outdated yet highly reliable ATTO 2.46 (Max Read/Max Write speeds). Every test was repeated for a total of 6 times and after that the average (not peak) numbers were recorded into our charts. For comparison purposes we used the only dual 2.5" HDD RAID enclosure in our hands (and one of the very few in the market) which is no other than the G-RAID Mini 1TB by G-Technology.  As always every test was performed in a fresh installation of Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with every update installed up to August 27th 2012.