Lindy ME-720SI: Serial-ATA Goes External
Contents
- 1. Requiem For Floppy Disk, CD And DVD Storage
- 2. Hard Drive Enclosures
- 3. Icybox IB-355-U: Flashes When Transmitting
- 4. Icybox IB-355-U, Continued
- 5. Icybox IB-350UE-BL: Cool Design With Blue Lighting Effects
- 6. Icybox IB-350UE-BL, Continued
- 7. Icybox IB-350US: Comes With A Fast Serial ATA Converter
- 8. Icybox IB-350US, Continued
- 9. Kingwin's KH-350U Goes Disco
- 10. Kingwin KH-350U, Continued
- 11. Lindy ME-720SI: Serial-ATA Goes External
- 12. Lindy ME-720U2SI: Internal IDE, External S-ATA And USB 2.0
- 13. Lindy ME-720F2U2: Pricey IEEE1394b Enclosure
- 14. Lindy ME-720F2U2, Continued
- 15. MaPower Combo MAP-H31C2: Heavy And Expensive
- 16. MaPower Combo MAP-H31C2, Continued
- 17. MaPower Warps MAP-KC31U2G: Flashy Design
- 18. Sharkoon's Rocketpod: Complicated Assembly
- 19. Sharkoon Rocketpod, Continued
- 20. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF: Flyweight At 240 G
- 21. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF, Continued
- 22. Cheap Adapter Solutions For Purists
- 23. ARP Hi-Speed Adapter, Continued
- 24. HWShop4U USB/IDE Converter Offers No Power Supply To The Board
- 25. The Wiebetech Combodock Offers An Aluminum Enclosure With An IEEE1394b Connection
- 26. Wiebetech Combodock, Continued
- 27. Benchmark Results
- 28. Evaluation
- 29. Our Recommendations
- 30. Technical Data
11. Lindy ME-720SI: Serial-ATA Goes External
If USB 2.0 and FireWire are too slow for you, Serial ATA is bound to be the faster solution. But its external apparition is still suffering from teething troubles, which will only be cured once new controller chips appear on the scene. Hot Plug and Play is not supported by all onboard controllers - the external drive only becomes available following a reboot. Without a restart, the disk in our test was recognized with an ICH6 and our Silicon Image test controller. All the same, our test candidate managed 45 MB/s. That's only 2 MB less than with an internal connection.
Plain plastic enclosure from Lindy
A small fan gets the air circulating
Can be connected to any Serial ATA controller
Almost no difference to an internal S-ATA hard drive (click to enlarge)
Accessories
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