Delock 42510 Thunderbolt External Enclosure for SATA 6GB/s 2.5-inch SSD and HDD

The Delock 42510 Thunderbolt External Enclosure for 2.5-inch SATA devices delivers maximum SATA performance with even the fastest Solid State Drives. The attractive and sturdy aluminum enclosure accepts 7mm slim, 9.5mm standard, and 15mm enterprise style 2.5-inch notebook style drive devices. The 42510 Thunderbolt to SATA Drive Enclosure provides full throughput for SATA 6GB/s with bandwidth to spare. It is backwards compatible with SATA 3GB/s and 1.5GB/s devices as well. The 42510 Thunderbolt Enclosure lets you choose between spacious Hard Disk Drives (HDD), screaming fast Solid State Drives (SSD), or popular hybrid SSHD Drives. Upgrade by simply swapping out drive devices. The Delock 42510 comes with a 12 Volt at 2.5 Ampere power supply. The External Thunderbolt Enclosure features a single Thunderbolt port and is compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows systems with Thunderbolt support.

A very helpful SSD endurance guide

As Solid State Drives (SSD) like OCZ Vector Series find more deployments than ever before, it's important to keep in mind some of their technological compromises. While smaller processes, and hence increased transistor densities, are often desirable in microelectronics, NAND cells present a trade-off. Smaller processes reduce the endurance cycles of NAND memory, while simultaneously providing better capacity to cost ratios.

On April 10, 2012, AnandTech published an interesting piece that discusses this compromise, and provides an informative table of typical SSD total estimated life-span for several program/erase cycles. That table is reproduced here for informational purposes. Synchrotech recommends potentional SSD users familiarize themselves with the trade offs that SSDs pose.

The Orico 2595SUS3 2.5-inch SATA enclosures tested by PC Funs

The folks at pcfuns.com ran benchmarks on the ORICO 2595 Series 2.5-inch SATA HDD/SSD external enclosures with eSATA and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 with a Kingston HyperX 3K 120 GB SSD installed.

Comparing both the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and eSATA, they found the eSATA interface to be significantly faster, but that isn’t to say the USB 3.0 numbers were entirely unimpressive. The 2595's eSATA port averaged 200 MB/s reads and 171 MB/s writes with the Solid State Drive, while the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port weighed in with 164.5 MB/s reads and 103 MB/s writes.

All in all, the stylish 2595SUS3 deployed with modern 2.5-inch devices provides excellent performance and is perfect for mobile applications at a price that anyone can appreciate.

ORICO 2595 Series 2.5-inch SATA HDD/SSD external enclosures with eSATA and SuperSpeed USB 3.0