Inateck FE2005 Review 2.5-inch USB 3.0 External Drive Enclosure with UASP

Test System & Comparison Drives

We are currently using a Z97 based motherboard with the ASUS Z97-A motherboard for us to use for our testing. All tests were performed on a fresh and up-to-date install of Windows 8.1 Pro x64 with no other applications running with UASP enabled. Synthetic Benchmarks were run with the OS loaded on a Seagate 600 240GB SSD. In between every test, the test drive was secure erased using an instance of Parted Magic. As such, all results should be indicative of optimal performance. Power saving modes, sleep and hibernation are all disabled and all components were set to their default/optimized speeds in the BIOS (1304) and are listed below.

Z97 Test Bench

Intel LGA 1150 Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	Intel Pentium G3258	Click Here
Motherboard	ASUS Z97-A (BIOS v.1204)	Click Here
Memory	Kingston HyperX KHX16C9B1RK28 8GB	Click Here
OS Drive	Seagate 600 240GB SSD	Click Here
Power Supply	Antec Basiq BP550W Plus-EC	Click Here
Operating System	Windows 8.1 Pro 64-Bit	Click Here

As mentioned, when operational the white/blue LED located near the lock switch will illuminate and pulse with I/O activity. It blinks three times prior to entering a sleep state when there’s data access inactivity for 10 minutes, at which point the enclosure will to go to sleep automatically.

In order to get peak performance, you must ensure UASP is supported to allow for the boosted performance. We validated using the ASUS tool in AI Suite 3 where the drive appeared as Inateck FE2005 SCSI Disk Device so from here, you can’t really ascertain which disk is inside the enclosure.