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H-RS880-uATX (Aloe) and USB 3.0

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March 6, 2011 1:47:40 AM

Help please -

I have tried LaCie USB 3.0 and Western digital USB 3.0 eternal drives with Buffalo and WD pci USB3.0 cards and cannot get much higher transfer rates than I do with a USB2.0. and an HP Pocket drive. Im getting nowhere with any of the manufacturer's service techs.
Should I be able to get (realistic) 3.0 speeds withthis motherboard if I have a USB 3.0 card installed? Is there anything special I need to do to make this happen?

thanks in advance,
Robert

My machine:
Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Processor
AMD Phenom™ II X4 processor 830
• 2.8 GHz, 4000 MHz FSB
Chipset
AMD 785G Chipset
Memory
8 GB DDR3

Internal drive
1 TB SATA Hard Disk Drive (7200 rpm)

Graphics
ATI Radeon HD 4200 integrated graphics
Expansion features
I/O ports
8 USB 2.0
1 FireWire (IEEE 1394)
1 headphone
1 microphone
1 LAN
1 Microphone/Line-in/Line-out
2 speaker-out
1 subwoofer
VGA and DVI-D Port
1 Optical Audio Out
Slots
1 MiniCard
3 PCI Express x1
1 PCI Express x16
Memory card device
15-in-1 memory card reader
Input devices
Communications
Network interface
Integrated 10/100/1000 BaseT network interface
Wireless Technologies
Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n

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a b V Motherboard
March 6, 2011 10:07:31 PM

You should be able to get significantly better than USB2 speeds, even if you don't get full USB3 speeds.

What is the rated speed of the drive? The most likely problem is simply that the drive is slower than full USB2 speeds, so sees no difference.
March 7, 2011 12:35:52 AM

Thanks for your reply! Both drives are 7200 rpm.
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a b V Motherboard
March 7, 2011 3:18:29 AM

I meant MB/s, but as they are HDDs, there is no way that USB3 will give any real speed boost.
March 17, 2011 12:20:23 AM

I'm now using a Verbatim drive and pci 3.0 card and have the same results. How do I find the information on "speed" that you are asking for?
a b V Motherboard
March 17, 2011 12:51:43 AM

Time copying some files to it or from it when using USB3 and USB2 to see if there is actually any difference. Most likely, the speeds are not much over USB2 speeds, if any, in which case USB3 will not be an improvement.
March 24, 2011 11:00:47 AM

2.0 - 16 - 19 MB/sec
3.0 - 17 - 24 MB/sec

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a b V Motherboard
March 24, 2011 7:26:28 PM

Both speeds are below USB2 speeds (48 MB/s), so it is the drive itself is too slow to benefit. The speedup from USB3 is probably because of either lower latencies or cache.
March 24, 2011 8:32:28 PM

Thank you. I'll check out the latencies and cache and see what I'm dealing with and make changes if necessary. This is new territory for me. I appreciate your feedback.
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