Not All USB 3.0 Implementations Are Created Equal

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Despite the fact that today's USB 3.0 products center on the same NEC controller, we compared a handful of different USB 3.0 drives and found performance to range from 113 to 173 MB/s, depending on the implementation used. Should you be worried?

Benchmark Results: Access Time

Access time isn’t very important for external storage applications, but we found that the PCI Express 2.0 solutions are slightly faster.

Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos