Conclusion:
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The BlacX 5g is a welcomed upgrade to USB 3.0 from the BlacX Duet which was just USB 2.0. The benchmarks we did showed us that the USB 3.0 did work as fast as if the same hard drive was connected directly to the motherboard. So essentially with the BlacX product line has taken a drive that is naturally not a hot-swap hard drive and given you the ability to hot swap. Thermaltake has taken it one step further with the BlacX 5G and given the speed everyone desires. The IT support person who has to go through stacks of SATA drives to find data or needs to image drives can do so quicker than ever before.
Have one running on my work bench right now. Have used the USB2 version for several years and was pleased with it but more speed is always to be desired. Plan to burn it in for a few days and will then run some bench mark tests. It should make an easy way to load up files for our WD live HD streamer.
carl