Conclusion

With the Ammo IN WIN has a fancy little hard drie case in its portfolio. Therefore especially the delivery aims at gamers because they added a target disc.

If we look at performance numbers the Ammo's USB 2.0 interface shows consistence. With a bit more than 30 MByte/s in the sequential disciplines it performed as we expected. Also in the random tests there were no inconsistencies. The transfer rats are on a competitive level.

Unfortunately the whole story with the RFID chip is a bit tricky especially because you find no information about it in the manual. If you put an unformatted hard drive into the casing it won't be recognised by the system. You have to format the disk before you put it into the Ammo otherwise it just refuses to work. Furthermore there are also compatibility problems with SSDs. Altough putting an SSD into a external USB 2.0 casing is nonsens people tested out, that the Ammo doesn't work in combination with either a OCZ Vertex 250 GB and an A-Data S592 64 GB SSD.

Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch