Performance

USB 3.0

While the benefit of USB 3.0 should be obvious, when compared to the USB 2.0 standard, it will be interesting to see if all the future enclosures will manage to deliver a similar performance. As this is our first USB 3.0 review, we do not yet have any performance comparison charts. Nevertheless, with speeds of over 100 MB/s read and write with ATTO and average read of around 87 MB/s across the entire WD drive, you should notice things moving along much faster with the NexStar 3 SuperSpeed than with a USB 2.0 enclosure.

USB 2.0

That said we also wanted to check how it fares when connected to the previous 2.0 interface. With a read speed of 30.7 MB/s it manages a solid performance, but is the lower spectrum of modern USB 2.0 enclosures out there. For those who need an enclosure and want to go the future proof route, the NexStar 3 SuperSpeed seems to be a solid choice nonetheless.