The Test Device: Super Talent RAIDDrive 64 GB (USB 3.0)
We looked at Super Talent’s RAIDDrive a few weeks ago and found that it's still one of the fastest USB 3.0 devices available today. The key to its 177 MB/s performance is an internal RAID setup that can take advantage of the fast USB 3.0 interface. While this ensures top performance, it heats up the drive quite a bit, too.
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Hardware | Details |
| CPU AMD I | AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (45 nm, 3.2 GHz, 6 x 512 KB L2 and 6 MB L3 Cache, TDP 125 W, Rev. C3) |
| Motherboard (Socket AMD3) | Asus Crosshair IV Formula (Rev. 1.0), Chipset: AMD 890FX, BIOS: 0701 (04/02/2010) |
| CPU Intel | Intel Core i5-750 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 2 x 256 KB L2 and 8 MB L3 Cache, TDP 95 W, Rev. B1) |
| Motherboard (Socket LGA1156) | Gigabyte P55A-UD7 (Rev. 1.0), Chipset: P55 Express, BIOS: F3 |
| RAM DDR3 | 2 x 2 GB DDR3-1333 (OCZ3G2000LV4GK 8-8-8-24) |
| HDD | Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GB, ST3500320AS, 7200 RPM, SATA 3Gb/s, 32 MB Cache |
| USB 3.0 Device | Super Talent RAIDDrive 64 GB, USB 3.0 |
| Storage Controllers | USB 3.0: NEC D720200F1 |
| Graphics | Sapphire Radeon HD 5850, GPU: Cypress (725 MHz), Graphics RAM: 1024 MB GDDR5 (2000 MHz), Stream Processors: 1440 |
| Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 750EPS12V 750W |
| Benchmarks | |
| I/O Performance | Fileserver-Benchmark Database-Benchmark Webserver-Benchmark Workstation-Benchmark Streaming Reads and Writes |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate |
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So Intel is also coming out with another mainstream board in the P67? I cant believe after almost a year they still havent decided to impliment the usb 3.0 controller on their vanilla boards. What about the supposed X68 board? Will it have more than 2 usb3.0 outputs and one possible on the front?
Great to see you guys keeping us up to date on the current state of USB 3.0 implementations. I was a little disappointed that you didn't test the Asus U3S6 USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gb/s Add-on card. http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=lGYmelQ8mJvPtYTv I figured since it uses a PCI-E x4 slot it would have the potential to offer excellent performance.
Where is the 600MB/s that USB 3.0 can theoretically deliver? I would like to see a test that saturates the bus completely, to find out how much we can get out of it. Like in USB 2.0 which has theoretical bandwidth of 60MB/s and achieves only 30MB/s. Or is this it? The realistic bandwidth of USB 3.0 is only 180MB/s???
I would have liked to have seen the Asrock Deluxe 3 or Extreme 3 on here, as they too have on-board USB3 (4 ports if im not mistaken) to see how it stacks up to the others listed, but it was a nice and informative article none-the-less.
I would have liked to have seen the Asrock Deluxe 3 or Extreme 3 on here, as they too has on-board USB3 (4 ports if im not mistaken) to see how it stacks up to the others listed, but it was a nice and informative article none-the-less.
Yep, an on-board usb3 shootout article (oldskool) would be nice
Intel is doing right! Strategic decisions fare much better than 'Vengeful' Decisions. (plying Worms Reloaded these days
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Shame there isn't a USB 2.0 bar in the graphs to use as a reference.
Asus U3S6 USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gb/s Add-on card. http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=lGYmelQ8mJvPtYTv
id like to see it in the chars.
Nice review.
I would have loved to see UD4, since that is the one I was planning on buying.
I'm not too thrilled at the thought of a bunch of comapnies starting to produce USB 3 chips. I'd rather just have one even if it costs more. At least there would be some consistancy and we would not have to sit down and research what drive or enclosure to buy.
USB 2 drives seem to average 25MBs and it's most likely due to all the crappy cheap bridge chips everyone makes. Whats the point of a standard if nobody enforces it? Having the USB2 logo on a box only means it works, not that it works up to spec.
Just look at whats happened to wifi. I never see speeds over 54Mbit even on N because of all the different manufacturers and incompatiblities. You can't choose who makes the wifi chip in your laptop (Atheros, Intel, Realtek, Raylink, etc etc) so buying an Xtreme N router for example doesn't do any good at all. Not too mention the drop-offs, disconnects, and range problems you run into by mixing brands of wireless chipsets.
I'm not too thrilled at the thought of a bunch of comapnies starting to produce USB 3 chips. I'd rather just have one even if it costs more. At least there would be some consistancy and we would not have to sit down and research what drive or enclosure to buy.USB 2 drives seem to average 25MBs and it's most likely due to all the crappy cheap bridge chips everyone makes. Whats the point of a standard if nobody enforces it? Having the USB2 logo on a box only means it works, not that it works up to spec.Just look at whats happened to wifi. I never see speeds over 54Mbit even on N because of all the different manufacturers and incompatiblities. You can't choose who makes the wifi chip in your laptop (Atheros, Intel, Realtek, Raylink, etc etc) so buying an Xtreme N router for example doesn't do any good at all. Not too mention the drop-offs, disconnects, and range problems you run into by mixing brands of wireless chipsets.
I agree. +1 to balance out the prick....
I am not to worried about usb3.0 right now as I have esata. But I would still like to see it implemented. The real kicker is another socket for intel. Hey intel. I am going to go with amd this round. That way I wont have to change a $250 motherboard every two years. I am still using an abit ab9 pro with a 775 quad core.
Would the same limitations be true of an add-on card on X58 chipset? I was under the [mis?]understanding that the additional PCIe slots were also 2.0 compliant and not limited to just the x16 physical slots as on the 1156 platforms...
none of this applies to me because I'm running an Asus P6T (x58 chipset) while none of your test boards use an x58.
I'd like to see 2 more things on this test: an x58 motherboard using a tertiary expansion slot (like a x4 slot on a P6T or a x8 slot on another board in place of a third video card) and the Asus x4 card with both USB3 and SATA 6.0Gb controllers. Does the x4 interface with the switch affect performance? I think it is also especially relevant considering the Asus board is barely more expensive than the USB3 cars without a 6Gb SATA controller and only a x1 interface.
How would those things fare compared to these solutions in this article?
Good article. USB3.0 is definitely a big deal for me. I can't wait to start using it download my RAW images. USB3.0 would fit the bill nicely.
Why not benchmark the Gigabyte P55A-UD3P or P55A-UD4P motherboards instead of the UD6P? Much more folks use these than the higher end P55s.
For the majority of folks running p55 systems, we don't want to give up pci express 2.0 lanes from the video card. So why not test the Asus U3S6 which uses 4 pci express lanes. I would love to see it's performance running on 1.1 speeds. Not to mention it's one of the cheapest implementations and comes with Sata 3 (Though the USB would be tested without the SATA being used).
Why no X58 motherboards in this evaluation? Would have been nice to see one of the Gigabyte GA-X58 series MB's in this comparison. The UD3R is a TOMS recommended MB.
Interesting article. Looks like full impementation is going to take a while longer.