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1118892 2010-07-15 04:18:00 Got my first USB 3.0 device today and the performance is bad, the HDD is capable of around 100MB/s and yet I'm getting around 36MB/s, I got better speeds out of eSATA, anyone else had any experience with USB 3.0? Deimos (5715)
1118893 2010-07-15 04:20:00 Did you install the drivers for it if you're using Win7? I don't think Win7 fully supports it yet (until SP1 comes out which maybe next yr now) Speedy Gonzales (78)
1118894 2010-07-15 04:24:00 Welcome to real life, where speeds are realistic.
Try an SSD instead of an HDD and you'll see speeds more to your liking.

Generally however, when a speed is said on a box, divide it by three and that's the real-world speed.

-- They also trick you with megabits (Mb)and megabytes (MB) per second.

Speedy: Usb 3.0 still has the speed capability.

Also, 36 MB/s is a 3.0 speed. 2.0 you'd be more likely to get closer to a max of say 9 MB/s
Cellux (15145)
1118895 2010-07-15 04:32:00 whats the actual sustained throughput spec of the HD, not the interface ??? Theres a reason that wont be on the box :punk 1101 (13337)
1118896 2010-07-15 04:44:00 Welcome to real life, where speeds are realistic.
Try an SSD instead of an HDD and you'll see speeds more to your liking.

Generally however, when a speed is said on a box, divide it by three and that's the real-world speed.

-- They also trick you with megabits (Mb)and megabytes (MB) per second.

Speedy: Usb 3.0 still has the speed capability.

Also, 36 MB/s is a 3.0 speed. 2.0 you'd be more likely to get closer to a max of say 9 MB/s

Wow, what planet are you living on?

Let me break it down for you:

USB 2.0 480 Mbit/s = 60MB/s - I can achieve around 40MB/s (I don't know where you got 9 from)
eSATA 1.5 Gb/s = 187.5MB/s - With the same disk as above I can achieve around 90+ MB/s (which would be the disk's limit)
USB 3.0 3.2Gbit/s = 400MB/s (which is 10x faster than your claim of 40MB/s)

I fixed it, the PCIe bus was slightly overclocked (102Mhz) changing it back to 100Mhz seems to have fixed it, I now get around 85-95MB/s and with my OCZ SSD I get 150MB/s
Deimos (5715)
1118897 2010-07-15 04:55:00 Got my first USB 3.0 device today and the performance is bad, the HDD is capable of around 100MB/s and yet I'm getting around 36MB/s, I got better speeds out of eSATA, anyone else had any experience with USB 3.0?

I bet its the marvel controller!

What size file\s are you benching?
SolMiester (139)
1118898 2010-07-15 04:56:00 I bet its the marvel controller!

What size file\s are you benching?

Its an NEC controller, I copied CS5 Master collection (around 4GB single file EXE) to and from the drive .
Deimos (5715)
1118899 2010-07-15 05:01:00 Its an NEC controller, I copied CS5 Master collection (around 4GB single file EXE) to and from the drive.

Ha, lucky you then, stay away from Marvel!
SolMiester (139)
1118900 2010-07-15 05:04:00 I get 40-50MB/sec for USB2.

I guess USB3 would be great overall like for a lappie - portable USB HDs. For a PC there is eSATA. Surely whatever USB# cannot outrun eSATA on the same motherboard.

People don't need USB3 for printers, well for currently that is.
Nomad (952)
1118901 2010-07-15 05:18:00 most tests for external usb drives have usb2 at about 30mb/s, usb3 is about 100mb/s utopian201 (6245)
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