MiniStack V2 Named MacAddict  Editor’s Choice
MacAddict Magazine
By Roman Loyola
August, 2006
Original Article in the August, 2006 MacAddict Magazine

miniStack V2 MacAddict Editor’s Choice
Improved External Hard Drive

Like the first miniStack, the miniStack V2 has three FireWire ports and four USB ports, but Newer Technology took one of each port and relocated it to the side of the drive. Now it’s much easier to connect and disconnect peripherals. Nice touch. Performance of the miniStack V2 is comparable to that of the older miniStack. Using Xbench (free, www.xbench.com) to test for speed, we found that in the Sequential Uncached Write test, both posted speeds of about 36MB per second when we used the FireWire400 connection. In the Sequential Uncached Read test, the drives both posted speeds of about 37MB per second when we used the FireWire 400 connection.  Port tweak, yup; performance jump, nope.
The bottom line: The miniStack V2 is a worthy follow-up to  great price.  
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