Inateck FE2006 Review – 2.5-inch USB 3.0 External Drive with UASP

By Nathan Kirsch

ATTO Disk Benchmark

ATTO v2.47

ATTO is one of the oldest drive benchmarks still being used today and is still very relevant in the SSD world. ATTO measures transfers across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and places the data into graphs that can be very easily interpreted. The test was run with the default runs of 0.5KB through 8192KB transfer sizes with the total length being 256MB.

Corsair Neutron XT 240GB SSD on SATA III:

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Corsair Neutron XT 240GB SSD on USB 3.0 w/ Inateck FE2006:

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Benchmark Results: ATTO showed Corsair Neutron XT 240GB SSD maxing out at 563 MB/s read and 544MB/s write in the standard overlapped I/O benchmark when connected to the ASUS Z97-A motherboard with the SATA III interface. This drive is rated at having up to 560MB/s read and 540MB/s sequential write speeds on ATTO, so we are just slightly above the advertised ratings so far. When we placed the drive into the Inateck FE2006 2.5-inch USB 3.0 drive enclosure we were hitting 452MB/s read and 450MB/s write! These are the fastest USB 3.0 speeds that we have seen to date over the USB 3.0 interface as our older enclosures did not support the UAS Protocol.

Legit Reviews reached out to some of the SSD makers and was told that the fastest they have seen in the test labs is 475MB/s when it comes to performance over the USB 3.0 interface. We tried to increase the queue depth beyond four to get more performance, but our performance numbers didn’t budge. This could be due to the design of the JMicron JMS567 controller or just that we are fully utilizing the USB 3.0 bus.