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I wrote about this issue while talking about 6Gbps SATA controllers on Intel motherboards here, but the same problem documented in that article applies to USB 3.0. In these cases you’ll still get better than USB 2.0 performance but you may not see the same numbers I got here. I was using a Gigabyte X58A-UD5, but many other boards dangle the USB 3 controller off of a single PCIe x1 lane running at 250MB/s (250MB/s each direction). Most mainstream motherboards with an Intel chipset don’t give USB 3 controllers enough bandwidth to deliver these sorts of results. There is one more stipulation that I must bring up. What this tells us is that, at least compared to FireWire 800 on a Mac Pro, the USB 3 connection in Windows is still the quickest way to write to the drive.

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Note that performance was identical regardless of whether I was using Paragon’s NTFS driver or I formatted the drive in OS X’s native HFS+ file format. Copying files to the drive manually I saw very similar numbers over FireWire 800 (53MB/s writes, 78MB/s reads). USB 2.0 performance was aroun 15 - 17MB/s while FireWire 800 managed 47.6MB/s for sequential writes and 75MB/s for sequential reads. All of these are written via the filesystem but are uncached: On the Mac, without Iometer I had to resort to XBench for the performance numbers. It works in both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. The USB 3.0 cable that ships with the GoFlex Desk USB 3.0 dock. Random performance remained unchanged regardless of what interface I used. The SATA to USB 3.0 bridge does some additional buffering that may be the cause of the improved performance here. I actually got better performance over USB 3.0 than I did with the drive connected via SATA at around 150MB/s for sequential reads/writes. The only issue is you need to make sure you don't lose the USB 3.0 cable since the drive-end of it is not backwards compatible. It's a shame that USB 3.0 isn't more ubiquitous because this is great performance not to mention that you get backwards compatibility with USB 2.0 systems. USB 3.0 performance is just awesome, the drive performs just like an internal hard drive. That’s 240Mbps, about half of the USB 2.0 spec maximum. Over USB 2.0 I got around 30MB/s for sequential reads/writes. USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 docks (left and right)

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The full results are below, but I’ll give you the gist of it here.

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Seagate sent all three docks for review and I benchmarked the 3TB GoFlex Desk under both Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6.4 to get an idea for its performance. USB 2.0, 3.0 and FireWire 800 Performance