Ineo NA307 & NA302Ue Hard Drive Enclosures Review

Performance Results

Read Bandwidth

For this benchmark, HDTach was used. It shows the potential read speed which you are likely to experience with these hard drives.


Both drives post some very good numbers when it comes to bandwidth performance. As expected, the internal enclosure (I-NA307) was the better of the two, as it is nothing more than a bridge connector and a fancy box. Yet, the difference is slim and it is doubtful anyone will notice a difference of a couple MB/S on their burst speeds.


Random Access Time

Once again, HDTach was used for this benchmark. This benchmark tests how quickly different areas of the drive’s memory can be accessed. A low number means that the drive space can be accessed quickly while a high number means that more time is taken trying to access different parts of the drive.


Ouch. Both the internal (I-NA307) and the external (I-NA302Ue) have rather high latency issues. While the external numbers are still fairly reasonable, the internal numbers should have been better and are a little bit disappointing. Hopefully, this is a trend which doesn’t continue.


SIS Sandra

This test was run with the removable storage benchmark in Sandra XII Standard. All of the scores are calculated in operations per second.


So much for hopes that the internal enclosure could pull things around. Simply put SIS Sandra did not like either one of these enclosures and it made no bones about showing its displeasure, as both USB and eSATA results are mediocre at best.