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Introduction
Akasa Integral External Enclosure Reviews
I would like to thank Akasa Europe for providing the review sample.The Akasa Group of companies was founded in 1997 with offices in Taipei and London. Their management team is experienced in Electronic and Electro-mechanical product development. The core business is based around heat sink design, manufacture and distribution to the PC manufacturing sector. The company also supplies the Distribution channel with PC thermal solutions. Their market leading portfolio of Retail based PC products aimed at the Custom PC market has been supplemented with a successful range of PC peripherals marketed into the mainstream PC channel.
The Akasa integral ESATA is available in three different colors:
Features
- Easy to install
- Supports any 3.5' IDE PATA or SATA HDD up to 400Gb
- ESATA transfer speeds up to 1.5Gbit/s
- ESATA or USB 2.0 transfer switchable
- Sleek aluminum case for efficient heat dissipation
- Easy stack design for smart use of space
- Blue LED power and access indicator
- Plug and Play hot swappable
- OS Support Win 98SE/ME/2000/PX, Mac OS 8.6 and above
I need a new hard drive for my laptop, but I can't find a 7200 RPM 2.5' HDD for a fair price in my country, only used ones which I find to be very risky. I have a friend who switched from desktop to laptop, and is not using his 3.5' (7200 RPM, and probably 32 MB of cache) 250 GB drive anymore,. He told me he would give me it away if I wanted. I'll get the exact drive model to check its specifications.
My question is: my laptop has 2 USB 3.0 ports, and I'm thinking about getting his HD, buying and placing it into an external 3.5' HDD enclosure with decent quality, such as Akasa Integral S, which has an USB 3.0 port, and then connecting it to my laptop. This enclosure has a power brick, as I believe the USB ports can't provide enough tension to feed it, +5V, I guess.
Will it be compatible? How would the perfomance be? I plan to use it as an external HD to hold personal files and to copy my Steam games to it and load it from there. Prices for a 7200 RPM external drives where I live are ridiculously high, and the only cost I would have is purchasing the external enclosure.
Thanks in advance.
Notebook specs:
Dell Inspiron 15R-5537
Intel core i7-4500U @ 2.7 GHz
AMD Radeon HD 8850M 2 GB GDDR5 (OC'ed to 8870M)
8 (2x4) GB DDR3L 1600 MHz of RAM
2 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0
Seagate ST1000LM024 1 TB 5400 RPM
My question is: my laptop has 2 USB 3.0 ports, and I'm thinking about getting his HD, buying and placing it into an external 3.5' HDD enclosure with decent quality, such as Akasa Integral S, which has an USB 3.0 port, and then connecting it to my laptop. This enclosure has a power brick, as I believe the USB ports can't provide enough tension to feed it, +5V, I guess.
Will it be compatible? How would the perfomance be? I plan to use it as an external HD to hold personal files and to copy my Steam games to it and load it from there. Prices for a 7200 RPM external drives where I live are ridiculously high, and the only cost I would have is purchasing the external enclosure.
Thanks in advance.
Notebook specs:
Dell Inspiron 15R-5537
Intel core i7-4500U @ 2.7 GHz
AMD Radeon HD 8850M 2 GB GDDR5 (OC'ed to 8870M)
8 (2x4) GB DDR3L 1600 MHz of RAM
2 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0
Seagate ST1000LM024 1 TB 5400 RPM
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G'day to all, I recently bought a new PC with win 10 on board. I now find that I want to retrieve some data from my old PC which is unserviceable.
I purchased a 22 pin sata to usb cable. When plugged in I find the Device manager will not find this new drive. The led's on the cable light up but the drive is not running.
The old HDD is a 3.5' unit which ran on win 7. the old drive is a Samsung HD502HJ/b (part No.) and is in working condition.
I am wondering if it requires a driver of its own? Or something a more diverse problem like a usb 2.0 or 3.0 conflict, maybe.
I am quite elderly and would appreciate any help from a kind person willing to help.
Thanking you in anticipation, MaurieT.
Performance
To test the performance two Seagate Momentus 7200.1 80GB drives were used. One features SATA connectivity, while the other is of the IDE variety. Most people may not use a 7200RPM drive in such an enclosure, simply because there is a price premium on such drives and they are not available in large capacities. We use these to measure the maximum performance such an enclosure is capable of, as 5400RPM or 4200RPM drives would become the bottleneck instead of the enclosure itself.USB 2.0 Performance
Actual IDE and SATA drive performaceBoth drives where connected to a normal PC and benchmarked. The above results show that both drives are fast enough, but may bottleneck the enclosure on the outer edge of the platters. It was to be expected, that 2.5 inch drives are not as fast as traditional 3.5 inch variants used in desktop PCs.
IDE and SATA within the Akasa P2NES enclosure
Benchmarking the two equal drives within the P2NES yields slightly different results. The Seagate SATA drive seems to perform better both in performance and when CPU utilization is concerned. Note the 0% CPU utilization, which is a first in hard drive enclosures. Upon repeated testing in such a configuration the result varied between 0% and 1%, thus we chose the latter in the bar graph below. An IDE drive will tax the CPU with 4% - still a very low score. The gap in read performance is around 4MB/s, or just over 10% and should make a noticable difference when copying large files.
The ATTO benchmark results yield the same difference in read speed, but also show that the write performance is identical, no matter what drive is used.
SATA - eSATA
eSATA performance is just as you would expect from such a device. You will not find a noticable drop in performance as the SATA connection of the Seagate Momentus is simply routed to the back of the enclosure. The only drawback is the additional two port USB cable needed to power the P2NES when eSATA is used.
ATTO also yields the expected results in such a configuration.