SATA and eSATA Performance

Website: HD Tach 3.0

We tested the SATA and eSATA performance with an Intel X25-M SSD to maximise the use of the SATA connections to show up any core differences in raw performance.


SATA performance is pretty uniform across the range of boards, with only a couple of MB/s separating them. The Gigabyte board is at the bottom of the table, but not by a difference that's noticeable.

USB 2.0 Performance

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We tested the USB performance with an Intel X25-M SSD and a SATA to USB adapter to saturate the USB bus in order to look for any performance drops.


USB performance is getting better - the SB710 hits a solid 31MB/sec, which is a decent increase from the 25 to 27MB/sec we used to see from AMD southbridges, but then again, compared to Intel and Nvidia's solid 35MB/sec, there's still some optimisation to go.