Does these numbers suck for eSata?

[steffi]

I'm not familiar with eSata but I can see these numbers for the X-25M aren't the same as when the drive is internal so I suspect that because the enclosures are cheap and not Oxford 924 that that would be the reason and not the AEK card itself.

I will probably end up buying an Oyen Digital enclosure just for comparison

These two attachments are

X-25M in a RocketFish enclosure over eSata
320 gb drive in a RocketFish enclosure over eSata

I suspect these numbers show that I'm not getting the full benefit of eSata because of the cheap enclosures.

 

[alphaod]

Is your eSATA adapter PCI Express based or USB based?

 

[steffi]

ExpressCard the BC338 AEK one.

Is your eSATA adapter PCI Express based or USB based?

 

[Cave Man]

Looks like it's maxing out around 1 gbps. Is the eSATA controller 1.5 gbps or 3 gbps? How about your drives?

 

[steffi]

right now I only have one type of enclosure that supports eSata and it's a cheap RocketFish enclosure that's not Oxford chipset.

One of the drives in the enclosure is the Intel X-25M 80 GB Solid State Disk.

The package of the BC338 card says on the back

"Support SATA II specification with transfer rate up to 3 Gb/s"

If I had eSata enclosure that used Oxford 924 I'd then be able to tell if it was the enclosure or the card that's the limiting factor but with the X-25M, it most likely isn't the drive.

Looks like it's maxing out around 1 gbps. Is the eSATA controller 1.5 gbps or 3 gbps? How about your drives?

 

[alphaod]

ExpressCard the BC338 AEK one.

Have the same card; I get around those speeds on a standard HDD. Don't have an external SSD to test with.