The RAID 0 setup shows a healthy increase in performance over the eSATA setup. This is a bit dissapointing considering the fact that this enclosure is supposed to be fully SATAII compatible when in reality is not. The RAID setup beats out the eSATA setup in every catagory just as the eSATA enclosure had done to the USB 2.0 enclosure. This is where it becomes apparent that Thermaltake should rewire and re-release the unit with true support for SATAII. Until that time it will never fully live up to its expectations as a SATAII compliant enclosure.

Now may also be a good time to comment on the enclosures analog data transfer gauge. The gauge on my enclosure barely works. The highest the meter will ever get is 2 out of 9 and just kind of bounces quickly between 0 and 2 most of the time. The gauge serves no real purpose but the idea behind it is kind of cool. The gauge also does not differentiate from what hard drive is being used when the needle is bouncing around due to the fact that it uses the motherboards HDD LED connector. Whenever any of your systems main drives are being accessed, the needle will move on the external enclosure. It's a pretty flawed design to be completely honest. If Thermaltake were to add a higher voltage line to the meter, along with program the internal board to emit the data transfer statistics of only the enclsosures hard drive they would be hitting a home-run. It still wouldn't serve any great purpose but at least it would work and look good doing it.