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| Coolermaster X Craft External Hard Drive Enclosure Review |
| Written by Maxit | |||||
Page 2 of 3 Coolermaster sent the 3.5" eSATA/USB 2.0 model in silver out to MaXit HQ. The packaging is top notch with a stylish box showing off installation, features and the unit itself.   Click to enlarge The box contains everything needed to install and run a single hard drive including a 5/12v power brick, enclosure stand, USB and SATA cables, SATA II port connector, Windows 98 driver and software cd and user manual. 
Installing a hard drive is easy with the tooless design Coolmaster opted for. Just press the switch in at the front, pop off the lid, connect up the drive and mount it on top of four spring loaded posts, clip the lid back on and it's ready to go. The spring loaded posts are a neat touch helping to reduce vibration and noise from the hard drive while providing shock-proof protection. The lid even contains a thermal pad to aid heat transfer. Once powered up, you'll notice the blue led lighting up the Coolermaster logo on the front of the unit. A great touch adding real class to the design.  Testing BayIn use the enclosure didn't disappoint. A 200GB Western Digitial 7,2000rpm 8Meg Cache hard drive was installed into the XCraft and the unit was connected via the eSATA connection to a spare SATA port on an Asus A8N32 ALI Delux motherboard. The hard drive was added under Windows XP and assigned a drive letter and formatted as normal. Real world performance during heavy photoshop useage was on par with the rest of the internal hard drives in the system . The external enclosure provided snappy response when dealing with large file transfers and heat temperatures for the hard drive hovered around 35 degrees during an extended session of use. If your motherboard supports it, you can hot swap XCraft drives making for a very convenient external storage and backup solution. The backup software included with the XCraft is IniBackup. Once installed from the CD, IniBackup can be activated at anytime by hitting the blue Coolermaster light at the front of the case. Source and target directorys can be set along with basic attributes. 
It gets the job done without complication but don't expect the bells or whistles found in more dedicated backup solutions.
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