I think this product will be really nice if it also supported TB3 - since it already supports USB C, it should be easy to support to TB3 especially now that Intel open it up.
Thunderbolt 3 requires additional hardware beyond the USB C specification. While Intel opening the specification up makes it cheaper, it still is not free.
Their CDM testing parameters are different. We consistently use 5 passes with a 8GB working set. They appear to be using 3 passes with a 1GB working set. The numbers also heavily depend on the drives used in the enclosure - you can see the difference between the SSDs and the HDDs even in our review. Lastly, the enclosure relies on host system caching to some extent, and that might skew results for small working sets.
I've been looking for a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure that supports NVMe and Trim. Does not seem to exist. I guess I'll keep waiting. Gotta be any day now already. Sheez!
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MajGenRelativity - Thursday, October 19, 2017 - link
I enjoyed the well written article. I'm not the right person for this, but it's always good to keep up to date on different fieldsgchernis - Thursday, October 19, 2017 - link
I suspect the Xilinx chip will get warmer only when in RAID5. If so, they are using it to compute parity.ddriver - Friday, October 20, 2017 - link
Parity calculation is actually extremely simple and lightweight. Even for SSDs it will use milliwatts of power.gchernis - Thursday, October 19, 2017 - link
It's very hard to see temperatures on the Storage Enclosure Thermal Characteristics graphs... Great review, thank you Ganesh!HStewart - Friday, October 20, 2017 - link
I think this product will be really nice if it also supported TB3 - since it already supports USB C, it should be easy to support to TB3 especially now that Intel open it up.MajGenRelativity - Friday, October 20, 2017 - link
Thunderbolt 3 requires additional hardware beyond the USB C specification. While Intel opening the specification up makes it cheaper, it still is not free.Vidmo - Saturday, October 21, 2017 - link
Ganesh,Why do your performance numbers differ so much from this review?
https://www.servethehome.com/highpoint-rocketstor-...
They were seeing much higher numbers with CrystalDiskMark than you saw, both in RAID 0 and RAID 5.
ganeshts - Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - link
Their CDM testing parameters are different. We consistently use 5 passes with a 8GB working set. They appear to be using 3 passes with a 1GB working set. The numbers also heavily depend on the drives used in the enclosure - you can see the difference between the SSDs and the HDDs even in our review. Lastly, the enclosure relies on host system caching to some extent, and that might skew results for small working sets.galfert - Sunday, November 12, 2017 - link
I've been looking for a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure that supports NVMe and Trim. Does not seem to exist. I guess I'll keep waiting. Gotta be any day now already. Sheez!