In addition to mini-USB provides the external hard drive from Buffalo to supply E-SATA and FireWire 400 Especially for Mac users are also two Firewire ports 800 interesting. In the metal casing of an internal plate sits Samsung HD501LJ with the identifier, SATA/300-Interface, 7200 revolutions per minute and a nominal capacity of 500 GB. Up to e-SATA cables are all included. These programs are Secure Lock Ware for encrypting and Memeo Auto Backup for backing up data in the.

The board worked in the test thanks to fast e-SATA interface fast: with 81.14 MB / s read and 99.00 MB / s in the letter, she reached extremely high transfer rates. The results of the USB port could be at 33 MB / s read and 31 MB can be / s seen in the letter. The built-in test computer motherboard Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 has only Firewire 400 interfaces. Attached to the Buffalo drive reached a maximum of 41.6 MB / s read and 32.16 MB / s in the letter again, no bad results in the data transmission rates. At the same time, we measured at 11.7 ms a decent value in the average access time.

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The high pace of work was evident in the noise: 24.9 dB (A) respectively, 0.6 Sone at idle and 26.5 dB (A) or 0.8 Sone under load for external drives relatively high levels. Even if we operated the existing power switch to let the disk is not completely disconnected from the network. Rather, the model pulled off another 2.5 watts. We have measured a maximum of 42.4 degrees inside the housing. This is not too high temperature and speaks for the exhaust system that works according to the manufacturer without additional fans.