OCZ Throttle 32GB eSATA Flash Drive Review @ Legit Reviews

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OCZ Throttle 32GB eSATA Flash Drive Review

 

Very few desktops and even fewer laptops have eSATA ports, but for those lucky enough to have a system with one you can embrace the OCZ Throttle eSATA drive. The OCZ Throttle eSATA drive is one of the very first eSATA Flash drives available on the market today. The OCZ Throttle’s eSATA interface offers an incredible performance speeds of up to 90MB/second read and 30MB/sec write. The OCZ Throttle 32GB eSATA Flash drive is the fastest 'thumb drive' ever tested at Legit Reviews, but the question is if the eSATA interface will catch on before USB 3.0 arrives.

 

Quote: "If you are looking for something faster than a USB 2.0 Flash drive for file transfers the eSATA interface it certainly an option that you should look into if the systems you work with have eSATA available on them. When moving roughly 30GB of files like we did in the real world testing the OCZ Throttle saved over a half an hour of time and to those that work on deadlines or are in a hurry that is very important..."

 

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"The removable storage benchmark in Sandra 2009 SP2 showed the OCZ Throttle eSATA drive is insanely quick when compared to USB 2.0 flash drives. The OCZ ATV 32GB USB Flash drive was one of the fastest drives we have ever benchmarked, but it looked slow when comparing it to the OCZ Throttle. With 'Write' speeds that were 4.65MB/Sec and 'Read' speeds of 25.30MB/Sec the old ATV series drive is still fast, but new technology has finally surpassed what we would once consider one of the fasted drives on the market. The new OCZ Throttle eSATA drive had an impressive 'Write' speed of 58.04MB/Sec when used with a eSATA port and 29.63MB/Sec when used with a USB 2.0 port. With a 256kb file size our testing shows that you get double the 'Read' performance by using eSATA over USB on the same device. The 'Write' performance results showed a 65% performance gain by using eSATA over USB, so hands down eSATA is the way to go if you are moving a large number of files..."

 

 

Article Title: OCZ Throttle 32GB eSATA Flash Drive Review ( -at -) Legit Reviews

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/877/1/

 

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