Comments on: USB 3 first benchmark – it’s here, and it’s fast

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:10:21 +0000

I have just carried out some tests with testing all the above as mentioned and also have come to the same conclusion as the graph. Tested with a sumsung 1tb 7200 32mb cahe drive, Seems the older the drive the slower the speed result. Usb 3 is averaging to be twice the speed of USB 2

Ofcourse the best results came from the cheapest looking caddies from China, the Ones with all the bells and whistles faire but not the same as the cheap caddies.

Tested with PCI express card

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:13:49 +0000

To the photographer, It still says that E-sata beats usb3 in small multi file writes, as in, specifically, backuping up 100’s of jpegs. E-sata works stupendously well for me, revelation compared to USB2. Esata FTW!

By: Warren

Warren — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:44:16 +0000

Why on earth was FirWire not included in this comparison of speed? I wonder if FireWire’s 3200 real world performance will exceed the performance of USB 3.0

By: Tim Day-Lewis

Tim Day-Lewis — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:07:26 +0000

I just think that if the speeds are comparable, USB3 is a LOT easier to set up than an esata external HDD. I know – i just did one!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:56:37 +0000

I take photographs and video very frequently, so downloading images and movies fast is key! I have been waiting for USB 3.0 to save my sanity for years! I have GB’s of data and every shoot is about 4GB without video so please, please, please, please make USB 3.0 the standard for all high data traffic devices, we REALLY do need it to save time and life!

By: stasi47

stasi47 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:24:41 +0000

Will it affect the performance, if I connect simultaneously an USB2 device (e.g. mouse) to the same USB-Bus as USB3 device?

By: Darien

Darien — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:42:11 +0000

@stevil – Yes, USB 3 drives are detected on connection, just like USB 2 ones. But if your eSATA drives aren’t being automatically detected when you plug them in, try going to the Device Manager and selecting “Scan for new devices”… that’s always worked for me.

By: stevil

stevil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:39:23 +0000

I assume that it is hotswappable? All the ESata boards I’ve had have not supported hot swap, you’ve had to have the drive attached to the ESata port on bootup…..rendering it pretty useless to me
I’d be interested to see what speeds you get with either a RAID array or a very fast SSD attached….can you oblige with this pre-production box?

Steve

By: David Wright

David Wright — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:04 +0000

Heard on BOL that Intel aren’t planning to implement USB3 on any of their chipsets until 2011, coincidentally about the same time their new LightPeak technology should hit the shelves… :-S

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:12:51 +0000

As more people try out USB 3.0 devices, the interest will grow. At this point, there aren’t enough devices or hosts for this to be much more than a curiousity.
Right now, the device speeds are limited by the drive speed. That will increase, as flash drives get bigger and RAID devices become available.