HornetTek Slipper USB 3.0 Hard Drive Dock

Lets test to see if the HornetTek Slipper can perform as well as an internal connection.

Testing Rig

Synthetic Benchmarks

•  Motherboard: Asus F1A75m-Pro
• APU: A8-3850
• GPU: Zotac GTX 560 Multiview
• RAM: 4GB DDR3-2133 Kingston HyperX
• CPU Cooler: Coolermaster 140mm
• PSU: Thermaltake 700w
• Case: Coolermaster HAF 922
• Storage: 64GB Kingston SSD-Now, 500GB WD Caviar
• OS: Windows 7 Professional

Testing drive is a 2TB WD Green.

DataMarck

DataMarck is a great tool giving a nice graphical benchmark of both max/min read and access times.  We see that the HornetTek Slipper performs withen 1% of a internal connection.

Internal Connection

HornetTek Slipper

CrystalDiskMark

Crystal is more of a comprehensive benchmark testing different read/write scenarios.  We also see a <1% performance difference between internal and the Slipper.

Internal Connection

HornetTek Slipper

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