March 15, 2010 at 11:45USB 3.0 - it won’t hurt us!
Good afternoon, dear readers!
Today I want to share with you the results of a quick test of the docking station and try to compare the data exchange speed in USB3.0 and USB2.0 mode . It took about four or even five months after the announcement of the USB3.0 interface, which came to replace USB2.0. To date, there are no logic sets natively supporting the new standard on the market. Therefore, motherboard manufacturers add a separate NEC chip controller connected via the PCI-E 2.0 bus.
We can try all the delights of innovation right now, because quite recently all sorts of USB3.0 devices began to appear in our market: external HDDs, docking stations, HDD boxes and the controllers themselves, unless of course there is one on your motherboard.
We meet, Docking station STLab S-280 USB3.0 2.5 "/3.5" SATA HDD Dock With a 2.5 " hard drive With a 3.5" hard drive Test bench: - Intel Core i7 860 - GIGABYTE P55 A * - UD6 - 2 * 2048Mb Corsair DominatorGT 2000C7 - WD Raptor 74Gb 740ADFD - be quite 1000W Dark Power Pro - Win 7 Professional * - availability on board USB3.0 and SATA III. USB3.0 Connectors - Blue
The testing methodology is extremely simple: a hard disk is inserted into the docking station, a 7GB file is copied and the time spent on the stopwatch is detected. I perform this operation with two hard drives: 2.5 "Samsung 5400rpm HM160HI and WD VelociRaptor 150Gb 10000rpm.
To check the speed in USB2.0 mode, we insert the cable designed for USB3.0 into the USB2.0 connector, since they they have direct and backward compatibility
Results: <<< Less is better A simple linear read test based on the EVEREST v5.30 program. If you connect the VelociRaptor via the SATA interface, the linear read result will be similar, so we are limited by the speed of reading information from the surface media, not USB3.0 interface.
Also, for the sake of sports interest, all of the above on the AMD platform with the GIGABYTE 790FXT A- UD5 motherboard and the Phenom II 965 BE processor was tested . The result, of course, turned out to be similar.
Motherboards:
GIGABYTE P55 A - UD6 GIGABYTE 790FXT A -UD5 Output
The prevalence of USB3.0 devices is growing rapidly, and the increase in data transfer speed when switching to USB3.0 is noticeable very clearly now. The increase is noticeable not only on the usual 3.5 "hard drives, even in the case of using notebook 2.5" 5400rpm drives the user gets a noticeable increase in speed. If earlier it was necessary to use e-SATA for high-speed data transfer, now it is not necessary at all. The new data exchange standard undoubtedly has the right to life, and after a short period of time, it will surely become familiar and ordinary for us. And the output of faster devices will further consolidate the rapidly growing position of USB3.0.
Today I want to share with you the results of a quick test of the docking station and try to compare the data exchange speed in USB3.0 and USB2.0 mode . It took about four or even five months after the announcement of the USB3.0 interface, which came to replace USB2.0. To date, there are no logic sets natively supporting the new standard on the market. Therefore, motherboard manufacturers add a separate NEC chip controller connected via the PCI-E 2.0 bus.
We can try all the delights of innovation right now, because quite recently all sorts of USB3.0 devices began to appear in our market: external HDDs, docking stations, HDD boxes and the controllers themselves, unless of course there is one on your motherboard.
We meet, Docking station STLab S-280 USB3.0 2.5 "/3.5" SATA HDD Dock With a 2.5 " hard drive With a 3.5" hard drive Test bench: - Intel Core i7 860 - GIGABYTE P55 A * - UD6 - 2 * 2048Mb Corsair DominatorGT 2000C7 - WD Raptor 74Gb 740ADFD - be quite 1000W Dark Power Pro - Win 7 Professional * - availability on board USB3.0 and SATA III. USB3.0 Connectors - Blue
The testing methodology is extremely simple: a hard disk is inserted into the docking station, a 7GB file is copied and the time spent on the stopwatch is detected. I perform this operation with two hard drives: 2.5 "Samsung 5400rpm HM160HI and WD VelociRaptor 150Gb 10000rpm.
To check the speed in USB2.0 mode, we insert the cable designed for USB3.0 into the USB2.0 connector, since they they have direct and backward compatibility
Results: <<< Less is better A simple linear read test based on the EVEREST v5.30 program. If you connect the VelociRaptor via the SATA interface, the linear read result will be similar, so we are limited by the speed of reading information from the surface media, not USB3.0 interface.
Also, for the sake of sports interest, all of the above on the AMD platform with the GIGABYTE 790FXT A- UD5 motherboard and the Phenom II 965 BE processor was tested . The result, of course, turned out to be similar.
Motherboards:
GIGABYTE P55 A - UD6 GIGABYTE 790FXT A -UD5 Output
The prevalence of USB3.0 devices is growing rapidly, and the increase in data transfer speed when switching to USB3.0 is noticeable very clearly now. The increase is noticeable not only on the usual 3.5 "hard drives, even in the case of using notebook 2.5" 5400rpm drives the user gets a noticeable increase in speed. If earlier it was necessary to use e-SATA for high-speed data transfer, now it is not necessary at all. The new data exchange standard undoubtedly has the right to life, and after a short period of time, it will surely become familiar and ordinary for us. And the output of faster devices will further consolidate the rapidly growing position of USB3.0.