HDD SSD performance on SATA - SATA6G and USB 3.0

HDD SSD performance on SATA - SATA6G and USB 3.0

With the new SATA3 6G controller and USB 3.0 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 numbers:

We use the A-DATA N002 Solid State Drive which has both a both SATA2 and USB 3.0 port.

** Small note - we mistakenly mislabeled a Phenom II X6 1090T as 1095T in the following benchmark.

Above, you can see a N002 series A-DATA Solid State Drive running over its NEC USB 3.0 controller. As you can see, the implementation works well, we see a little bit of a slowdown, but nothing major.

Last but not least some numbers based on regular SATA2 over the SATA3 6G controller of this motherboard, there surely is nothing to be ashamed about that performance. Overall AHCI performance with small files on AMD series 800 chipsets are rather slow though. Let's move onward to some actual game testing.