USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet 168
MojoKid writes "HotHardware has posted a sneak peek at a new motherboard Asus has coming down the pipe with USB 3.0 and SATA 6G support. The Asus P7P55D-E Premium has a PLX PCI Express Gen 2 switch implementation that connects to NEC USB 3.0 and Marvell SATA 6G controller chips. With a USB 3.0 enabled external hard drive connected to a USB 2.0 port and then to the board's USB 3.0 port, there were some rather impressive gains to observe. When connected to a USB 3.0 port, the external hard drive was about 5 — 6x faster versus connecting over USB 2.0, with total throughput in excess of 130MB/sec. On the other hand, benchmarks with Seagate's new Barracuda XT SATA 6G drive show little performance difference but a burst rate that is off the charts. According to ATTO, there are slight overall performance benefits to be had connecting the drive to the SATA 6G controller, but the deltas were quite small; somewhere in the neighborhood of 5MB/s or so."
"off the charts"?? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"off the charts"?? (Score:4, Funny)
"But this one goes up to 3!"
"Couldn't they just make 2 louder?"
Re:5x-6x times faster?! (Score:5, Funny)
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photo's to a PC that only has a keyboard to type them pixel by pixel.. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try typing down 3GB.
Re:5x-6x times faster?! (Score:2, Funny)
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photos to a PC that only has RS232. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try RS232.
Re:moral? (Score:3, Funny)
"So the moral seems to be: USB 2 sucks for disks"
I can't be the only one that miss-parsed that is USB 2 sucks dicks.
USB 3.0 is not fast enough (Score:2, Funny)
The inevitable 10 Gbit Ethernet dongles will be limited by USB speed.
Re:5x-6x times faster?! (Score:3, Funny)
What, keyboard slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photo's to an iPhone that only has a touchscreen to type them pixel by pixel.. Seriously, keyboard is FAST. If you want slow, try typing down 3GB on a touchscreen.
Re:Just to put an end to this... (Score:4, Funny)
What butterfly slow? Seems you've never had to transfer 3 GB of photos by gathering a huge amount of hydrogen together, forming a star, waiting for star to burn burn through and go nova forming many heavier elements, taking those elements and combining it with alot more hydrogen to form a solar system, evolving life on one of the planets and shepherding their technological development in the hope that there will one day be 3 GB of photos and the computer to transfer them to.
Re:5x-6x times faster?! (Score:3, Funny)
What, USB 1 slow? Seems like you never tried to transfer 3GB of photo's to a PC that only has a keyboard to type them pixel by pixel.. Seriously, USB 1 is FAST. If you want slow, try typing down 3GB.
3GB
Re:Just to put an end to this... (Score:3, Funny)
Ahhh, I love you XKCD [xkcd.com].