eSATA / USB OCZ Throttle USB Flash Drive: Two Sides

At Habré, they already discussed the announcement of similar devices , but now you can buy them freely, for example, on the Savyolovsky market (although 90% of sellers say “eSATA?” And when they hear the keyword “16GB” they immediately rush after the first USB flash drive :-) ). We are talking about OCZ Throttle, manufactured in sizes 8, 16 and 32GB. This flash drive has long been my dream, with its advertised "30MB / sec recording and 90 reading." I was sure that such a flash drive is a great gift for any Hick or mother sysadmin :-) Yesterday I finally got it, and I want to share my impressions with habrachchiteli :-)
Ps. I bought 8GB for 1300 rubles, I am sure it can be found cheaper.

At the beginning of 4 hours I was tormented with motherboards, and with wood - a flash drive was not detected through eSATA. Everything turned out to be simple - you need to stick a flash drive in both eSATA and USB, only when it will work ;-) If you do not have eSATA, you can find the output of SATA-> eSATA on the back panel, but this is not entirely honest and reliable, because eSATA has a much higher signal amplitude, and the cable can be up to 2 meters long (as opposed to ~ 60cm for SATA).

Speed

Reading 25-33Mb / s (depending on the chipset / settings) - well, it is still tolerable :-).
Record - 12.5 MB at the beginning of recording, 8.5 MB - during the whole process. This is a complete failure :-) "Ordinary" Corsair GT show a speed of 3-4 times higher. 21.5 MB / sec, which is very good for a USB flash drive.

Via eSATA - reading 85MB / s, writing - the same 8.5MB / s on large files of 26 meters per second, do not forget to enable Combatibility mode for this disk ;-). By the way, in SATA mode, CPU usage is 0-1%, and in USB mode - one core is 100% clogged (iP45)
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Summary:

OCZ Throttle surpasses commercially available USB flash drives in all respects, especially in SATA mode. If you are interested in high read speed / the ability to install a regular OS (this should be easier than on USB) and do not bother connecting to two ports at the same time - OCZ Throttle would be an excellent choice. I do not regret the spent 1300 rubles :-)

Ps. You can turn on "improved performance" in the device properties to remove the restrictions on the write cache in Windows (for example, it is impossible to do USB). Then on small files the speed will be tightened (but it is natural to pull it out anymore until it is safely disconnected).
Pps. Do not forget to include Compatibility Mode for this disk in Total Commander ;-)