Assembly

As I mentioned before, installation could not be simpler. Squeeze the drive past the rubber parts, connecting it in the process, then slide it into place. Then secure the cover again and you are ready to go.

Use

The two different RFID tags are already "married" to the encrypted hard drive. This means that no other key will work on this drive. Even In Win will not be able to provide you with further tags, if you were to lose them both. They do offer the option for you to send them the enclosure and they will try to retrieve your data. While this offer is certainly a positive one, the success of such a recovery is not guaranteed and depending on why you encrypted your data in the first place, you may not want to hand it over for some other people to look at.

Both RFID tag only work at very close range. You will have to place them on the correct spot of the AMMO enclosure. Only then will it work and the case emits a beep to let you know that the key has been recognized.

Performance

The AMMO enclosure manages an average read speed of 33.3 MB/s. This is great, considering that the drive is the one thing holding it back, as the performance dips below the 35 MB/s mark towards the end of the benchmark. On top of that, the unit only requires 3% CPU utilization, which is great as well.


As you can see, the AMMO scores the exact same read speed and CPU utilization as the Silverstone Treasue - another RFID enclosure we have reviewed.


To take a look at the write speeds, we used ATTO Disk Benchmark. The enclosure manages over 30 MB/s write speeds, which is excellent for an 2.5 inch device over USB 2.0.