Tech On-the-Go meets the Seagate BlackAmor WS-110 1TB DAS

Performance
For our performance testing I wanted to measure not only the theoretical bandwidth but also to see how the drive would perform in the real world. For this I used Everest as well as Sisoft Sandra for my synthetic tests and then AutoGK (with both source and destination on the WS-110) , a Virtual Machine, HD Video Playback (1080p), large file transfers and of course the backup of a large amount of data.

  
USB Performance                       E-SATA Performance
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USB Performance                       E-SATA Performance
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My backup used a custom range of data from two internal and a singleexternal drive. I selected a full backup profile complete with 256-bitAES encryption and also included the file security information. To addin an extra kick I required verification of the backup and only used the normal compression.

So we see, not surprisingly, that the e-SATA connection is considerably faster than the USB 2.0 connection.

I was impressed with the speed of the backup software; I was able to back up roughly 74 GigaBytes of data in roughly two hours. This is with 256-bit encryption, file security and normal compression. Not too shabby at all.

My other real world testing went very well and show that the WS-110 could be used to house Virtual Machines, HD video, and also as a target and source for video Transcoding.