Installation continued

     The back of the drive is very straight forward.  You have a power switch, USB port and power cable port, nothing to get confused about here.  All that's left to do is hook it to the computer and turn it on.

A nice little green power light on top lets you know everything is on.

Testing

     For testing I'm going to use Nero DVD/CD speed test and CloneDVD.  Using a DVD I will let nero give me all the info it can on the drive and using CloneDVD I'm going to see if it takes longer to rip and burn a movie through USB.

Nero with drive installed in computer.

Nero with drive installed in the Super Shuttle

     As you can see, USB really didn't slow down this burner at all.  USB's transfer rate is clearly fast enough to handle a 8x DVD burner.  Let's test it out in a real world test, CloneDVD.

     The synthetic and the real world test both come to the same conclusion.  You aren't going to lose anything by going with USB 2.0.

Conclusion

     I did notice something during the testing.  The drive enclosure vibrates and causes noise.  After tightening the thumbscrews as tight as I could get them, the rattle was still there.  Maybe with a little foam padding on the inside or the ability to use all four screws could eliminate this vibration.  All in all this is a very light weight enclosure that is worth the $34 it costs.  If you need an external enclosure for whatever reason, this one is a good choice.  Obviously the best choice is to be able to put the drive in your computer case, but that can't always happen and when you do that you lose all mobility.  Kingwin has the answer for you if you need mobility or you need to connect many devices up to a computer.  Pick yours up at Newegg today.