Not All USB 3.0 Implementations Are Created Equal
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: I/O Performance
For some reason, the two Gigabyte platforms aren't a good fit for the Western Digital add-on card in our file server test. Both boards deliver significantly lower I/O results with this card.
The integrated Gigabyte solutions aren’t optimal for Web server solutions. The add-on cards are better for this purpose.
In the workstation result, we found the opposite of the file server results: the WD controller on the Gigabyte motherboards is best here, showing that performance may vary quite a bit depending on the type of workload.
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