Transfer speeds could be better, but a bargain if you want to house a 7mm drive
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Published on 29 May 2014
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The SilverStone SST-TS10 is a slim USB3 hard disk enclosure that supports 7mm drives only. It’s coloured a discreet black, and has a USB3 port on one side. Installing disks is easy because you simply have to unscrew one end and insert a hard disk or SSD into it then re-attach that end. However, the miniscule screws are fiddly to screw back in place. As that’s a task you’ll probably only have to perform once, that’s not much of a problem.
We tested the SST-TS10 with an OCZ Vertex 460 SSD, and in our storage benchmarks this combination wrote large files at 206MB/s and read large files at 228.MB/s. Small files were written at 10.4MB/s and read at 41.4MB/s. This is certainly much lower than we’d expect the SSD to perform when connected to a SATA3 port, and we’d expect that to be the case.
However, these speeds are also slower than those seen when we used the same SSD with the SilverStone SST-EP02, where we saw large write speeds of 218.4MB/s, large file reads of 223.6MB/s, small file write speeds of 75.1MB/s and small file read speeds of 66.6MB/s. Of course, the SST-EP02 is just a SATA3 to USB3 connector, not an enclosure, but we’d expect to see similar speeds.
We wouldn’t buy an SSD to use with the SST-TS10, but if you have a redundant 7mm hard disk or SSD lying around, and you want to make use of it, then for the sake of £11 the SilverStone SST-TS10 is a good buy.
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Andrew Unsworth
When he isn't pretending to be Carl Cox or J-Rocc on his wheels, Andrew can be found sorting out his wife's IT problems, screaming profanity when people ring him during Game of Thrones and worrying about getting old. He writes reviews about all manner of computing products for Expert Reviews and Computer Shopper, and is expanding the Car Tech section in his spare moments.
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