We ran a number of disk tests on the OCZ Throttle and see if it is up to it's spec.

Using Sisoft Sandra, we test the Physical disk on Drive F:

From the chart we can see that the red colour chart performs on par with the Apple SSD SM128 and the Samsung MCCOE64G8MPP. The Drive Index is also quite consistent throughout  the media. On the average, it is able to achieve ~ 88.6MB/s transfer for read performance. The random access time is 20 us.

Using HD-Tach, the same test is done. The drive is able to achieve a Burst Speed of 100.1MB/s. As for the average read it gets around 87MB/s with a random access time of 0.2ms. CPU utilisation is pretty low at 1%.

In a file transfer test from my Seagate SATA II HDD to the disk. A file / folder of size 5.25GB is transferred from disk to OCZ Throttle. It started off around 40MB/s and the performance drops to  around 24.2MB/s just 40 secs before it completes writing to the device.

Conclusion

The eSATA OCZ Throttle is definitely something that is revolutionary.  Most importantly, it rnus faster than he conventional USB drives. Although the read speed is fast as the speced 90MB/s, the write speed we get is 24.2MB/s, the spec indicates it can go as high as 30MB/s.

OCZ has also included a mini USB cable for non-powered eSATA ports or USB access. OCZ Throttle is a 2-in-1 device. Thus, you have the flexibility to use either eSATA transfer which is faster or use the USB port to power up (for non powered esata ports) or use the USB port directly for file transfer to the device.

I would recommend the 32GB stick as it should be able to hold your bluray movie HD clips in one stick.