1 00:00:07,279 --> 00:00:12,440 so today I have a test that's very interesting to 2 00:00:10,679 --> 00:00:18,439 me because I copy a lot of data around so 3 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:22,119 what I have here is my little chart that I'm going to make and I'm going to be 4 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:28,599 looking at the performance of various USB chipsets and various drive solutions 5 00:00:26,359 --> 00:00:35,640 so I have three different solutions that I'm going to be using the first of which 6 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:39,559 you can see here is I'm going to do a oh 7 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:41,399 did I write one terabyte oh boy it's 8 00:00:39,559 --> 00:00:46,440 been a long day already Guys these are all you know what let's just yeah these 9 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:54,320 are all 1 Gigabyte file copies okay so the first solution is a USB 3 seate 10 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:55,879 glex um adapter plugged into a patriot 11 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:59,320 Wildfire drive so this is one of the highest performance drive it's pretty 12 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,719 much the highest performance drive on the market so we're going to see what 13 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:07,799 kind of thorough put we can get using that next we have a Seagate free agent 14 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:13,520 glex this is a 5400 RPM storage shrive this is also hooked up to a usb3 chipset 15 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:19,040 here at the back the one I have here is the native a75 chipset one I'm going to 16 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:22,520 compare that against the as media one which uh based on that it's just started 17 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:27,200 turning up and it's on an assus board I'm guessing it's their own kind of custom thing and it's probably going to 18 00:01:25,479 --> 00:01:30,720 turn up on other assus boards in the future so the performance may be 19 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:34,759 relevant I'm also going to test against the ever 20 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:38,640 popular Renaissance so this is on uh some of the higher end boards 21 00:01:36,079 --> 00:01:44,560 particularly they used to be NEC usb3 chipsets so you can see I've got one 22 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:47,439 here on the z68a gd80 and finally I'm 23 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:51,479 going to test against USB 2 so I'm going to test against Intel's USB 2 controller 24 00:01:49,719 --> 00:01:56,439 just because it's a much more known quantity than the one on this a75 25 00:01:53,880 --> 00:02:00,840 chipset the last Drive configuration I'm going to test is the mushkin Ventura Pro 26 00:01:59,079 --> 00:02:03,920 this is a USB 3 drive and I'm going to find out what the difference in 27 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:09,840 performance is between a high performance USB thumb drive like this an 28 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:12,760 Extreme Performance SSD on USB 3 and a 29 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:16,879 regular hard drive on USB 3 across all these different platforms so I'll be 30 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:21,360 back with results or with any abnormal findings throughout the testing here so 31 00:02:19,519 --> 00:02:26,959 the first round of testing on the ASUS a75 board is done so on the a75 32 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:32,000 controller I accidentally wrote These in the wrong box I got 34.5 megab per 33 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:36,040 second consistently and I'm just timing this on my iPhone while I do the 34 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:41,920 transfer so I got 29 seconds 29 seconds and 29 seconds to transfer my 1 GB file 35 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,760 so I'm going to go ahead and assume that's a chipset limitation on large 36 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:53,560 file transfers on the as media controller however I got 125 mbes per 37 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:55,360 second on the glex with the Wildfire SSD 38 00:02:53,560 --> 00:03:00,560 so let's assume that that's pretty much the limits of what we can achieve with 39 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:05,799 the this usb3 controller and then next we have 67 megabytes per second on the 40 00:03:02,959 --> 00:03:10,680 one or on the mushkin Ventura Pro remember that's the USB 3 stick and 41 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:17,480 finally 50 let's call it 53 megabytes per second on the drive with a hard 42 00:03:13,879 --> 00:03:18,319 drive as opposed to a solid state drive 43 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:23,120 okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to change motherboards here change platforms going to switch over to my 44 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:28,879 Intel platform and we're going to test the usb2 for reference as well as the 45 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:34,000 Renaissance controller which you can see down there somewhere 46 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:35,400 it's right there all right well I'm done 47 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,519 most of them so I'm just going to run my last test here and I'll talk a little 48 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:43,920 bit about the results that I've seen so far while it's running so yeah it's not 49 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:47,920 sophisticated but yes this is actually how I'm testing it I press stop when 50 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:52,200 it's done transferring so here we go so I've tested the NEC Renaissance however 51 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:57,799 you pronounce that I have no idea controller you can see that you okay a 52 00:03:55,079 --> 00:04:04,599 few things become fairly apparent right off the bat here number one is is that 53 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:06,519 the Wildfire is not a bottleneck for any 54 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:10,799 of these interfaces I mean we're we're not even seeing anywhere near the limit 55 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:15,439 of what that thing is capable of doing next is that the Ventura Pro seems to 56 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:20,560 max out around there we go it's done so that took oh surprise surprise 37 so 57 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:25,320 that'll be around 27 megabytes per second okay so these 58 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:30,880 are all in megabytes per second okay so the Ventura 59 00:04:26,840 --> 00:04:32,880 Pro is uh limited to 67 megab per second 60 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:38,120 cuz you can see these two controllers are both capable of higher numbers up to 61 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:41,280 125 or 111 megab per second with the 62 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:43,960 glex interface on the Wildfire Drive 63 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:48,840 okay uh down here you can see that with the mechanical drive we don't see any 64 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:54,800 higher than these are both 53 mby pers second and we can also see that the a75 65 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:59,960 usb3 controller is bottlenecking pretty much every solution here the USB 2 66 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:04,479 controller performs consist consistently with all of them because once again it 67 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:09,199 is the bottleneck not the drives themselves and the Renaissance one that 68 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:13,639 appears to be the limit because we see that the golex Wildfire performs better 69 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:18,440 on the as media controller so that Asia controller is actually looking pretty 70 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:23,440 darn good my results are not scientific and they are not accurate to within 01 71 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:27,800 of a megabyte per second these are all approximate number so take them with a 72 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:32,479 grain of salt but there you have it the Renaissance controller is approxim Ely 73 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:38,440 four times faster than USB 2 the as media controller is about another 10% 74 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:43,400 faster than that and then the a75 controller seems to bring up the rear 75 00:05:41,039 --> 00:05:46,560 here as far as the usb3 controllers go so thank you for checking out my video 76 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:52,919 don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 77 00:05:49,319 --> 00:05:52,919 other computer videos