Performance Storage Subsystem - USB 3.0 & SSD SATA3 (6G)

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 128GB 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.

SATA 6 Gbps performance

AMD offers a grand total of six SATA3 (6Gbps) ports with their AMD 970 chipset. Below we show SATA3 6 Gbps (BIOS at AHCI mode) performance with a SATA3 SSD. 

The SATA3 based SSD connected to the SATA3 (6Gbps) Intel controller. AHCI mode is enabled in the BIOS, especially with SSDs that helps a little on peak performance. The native SATA3 (6 Gbps controllers) are nice and fast.