Performance Storage Subsystem - USB 3.0

Performance Storage Subsystem - USB 3.0

With the modern age controllers we started adding SSD performance numbers measured on such interfaces (when applicable). Putting these in nicely styled charts would be better, but with technology so new we just do not have anything out there yet to compare to, so here are some raw peak performance numbers.

Above you can see the Corsair Flash Voyager GTX 128 GB USB 3.0 flash drive with today's tested motherboard. It is one of the fastest USB 3.0 sticks available on the market and makes USB 2.0 at 25~30 MB/sec look rather pale in comparison. The write performance was below par though.

SATA 6 Gbps performance

Intel offers a grand total of SATA3 (6Gbps) ports with the embedded chipset, and we think that is just excellent. Below we show SATA3 6 Gbps (AHCI mode) performance with a SATA3 SSD. 
 

Above we have the SATA3 (6Gbps) Intel controller. AHCI mode is enabled in the BIOS, especially with SSDs that helps a little on peak performance. The native Intel SATA3 (6 Gbps controllers) are the fastest your money can get you really.