Icy Dock MB994SP-4SB-1 Full Metal Quad Bay 2.5″ SATA 6Gbps Backplane Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
As this is not a performance based device, what we have look for in our testing is any bottlenecks that there may be from using the SATA backplane. The above set of results are with our Patriot Wildfire SSD connected directly to the motherboard, giving us our baseline performance.
Once we had our baseline, we installed the same SSD into the backplane and performed the same read test suite from within AIDA 64. As we can see there is no bottlenecks at all from using the drive bay.
