Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF: Flyweight At 240 G
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
20. Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF: Flyweight At 240 G
The most noticeable thing about the Vantec Nexstar NST-350UF is bound to be its weight. Our scales showed it at a mere 240 g. With a hard drive built in, this will go up to an average 640 g. The enclosure of thin aluminum is best suited to a slow 5,400 rpm 3.5" IDE hard drive. We recommend this speed because drives spinning at 7,200 rpm produce considerably more heat. This is difficult to extract as the NST-350UF has no louvers. A premature meltdown would not be long in coming. The two interfaces are standard USB 2.0 and FireWire 1394a. Using USB, our test Seagate hard drive reached a very useful 23 MB/s. The FireWire gave us an average 27.6 MB/s, placing it in the upper midfield.
Looks like plastic, but it's aluminum
The packaging as it appears in the stores
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