Comments on: Review: StarTech S252SMTB3, Two Bay Thunderbolt HDD/SSD Enclosure https://techcitement.com/column/review-column/review-startech-s252smtb3-two-bay-thunderbolt-hddssd-enclosure/ get excited Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: JohnS https://techcitement.com/column/review-column/review-startech-s252smtb3-two-bay-thunderbolt-hddssd-enclosure/#comment-47629 Tue, 03 Jun 2014 19:37:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=21002#comment-47629 I just purchased this enclosure and connected it to a late 2013 MacPro. Mounted two SSDs in it and tested with BlackMagic. My read times were on par with yours, but my write times were slower. This may be due to the SSDs: Kingston SV300S37A/120g (141.3.4 MB/s write) and an OWC EX6G120 (132.4 MB/s). Read times beat the pants off an external HDD (USB3), but write times weren’t a whole lot faster.

No comparison to internal SSD which pinned both gauges at 797.8 write and 931.9 read.

I hooked the OWC drive up with a USB 3 connector and the test results were 124.0 write and 218.2 read. Slower than the 132.4/246.0 using the StarTech Thunderbolt enclosure, but the difference seems hardly worth the price. I’m really kicking myself for not spending the extra $300 for the 512GB PCIE drive..

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