SilverStone Raven RVS02 external USB 3.0 HDD/SSD enclosure review

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SST-RVS02 external HDD enclosure

Perennial favorite, SilverStone continues to meet the expectations of PC enthusiast crowd with innovative and well executed products. Since 2003, SilverStone has built a reputation offers a solid product lines and a pioneer of new PC accessories and peripherals. Catering to enthusiasts and professionals, SilverStone continues to grow in the PC industry, it controls the market with their innovative cases, power supplies and other accessories.

Road Warriors are a tough crowd to please: they want the best of both worlds-portability and performance. In many cases, it can be extremely difficult, to incorporate into a single product, the dichotomy of these features. Many producers have tried to fit these attributes to the perfect PC Accessories, only to fail miserably. Of course an external hard disk enclosures are not excluded from it, especially the enclosures that have a 2.5 "storage devices.

Small, portable 2.5 "external body always seemed wrong. While the diminutive in size these chassis were driven solely by the baud rate of USB 2.0 and data suffered for it. the eSATA port to fix, which improved the speed of data transmission in these devices, but the costs were high, as the eSATA port requires two cables (data and power) instead of one. Enthusiasts screamed on the solution to the problem, and was nedohledné SuperSpeed USB 3.0 specification.

Today, SilverStone brings its first USB 3.0 capable of 2.5 "external hard drive enclosure, SST-RVS02. Hailing from famous product line Raven, SST-RVS02 closes the debacle of the USB 2.0 and eSATA. Completely tool-less and sport exterior artificial carbon fiber, SST-RVS02 is hell bent on changing the rules. Attractive price $ 25.99 at Amazon, SST-RVS02 you get the guarantee 1 year at SilverStone.

SilverStone SST-RVS02 external HDD Enclosure specification:

Black with carbon fiber stylingWindows, 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OS and Linux. 9.5 mm thickness of 2.5 "hard disk or SSD (compatible with 6Gbit/s) of Windows XP, Vista and 7
Mac OS 9.x (Apple USB support 1.3.5 and greater) and Mac OS x 10.
Linux
Computer with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0/1.1 interfaceUSB 3.0 (up to 5Gbit/s).
Compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1.127.9 mm (D) x 71.5 mm (w) x 18.5 mm (H)

The SilverStone SST-RVS02 proud road warriors? If in the blend portability and performance into a single product, SST-RVS02? I'll find out soon.