WEBVTT 00:00:07.279 --> 00:00:12.440 so today I have a test that's very interesting to 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:18.439 me because I copy a lot of data around so 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 00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:28.599 looking at the performance of various USB chipsets and various drive solutions 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 00:00:31.720 --> 00:00:39.559 you can see here is I'm going to do a oh 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:41.399 did I write one terabyte oh boy it's 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 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:54.320 are all 1 Gigabyte file copies okay so the first solution is a USB 3 seate 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:55.879 glex um adapter plugged into a patriot 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.320 Wildfire drive so this is one of the highest performance drive it's pretty 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:02.719 much the highest performance drive on the market so we're going to see what 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:07.799 kind of thorough put we can get using that next we have a Seagate free agent 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 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 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:22.520 compare that against the as media one which uh based on that it's just started 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 00:01:25.479 --> 00:01:30.720 turn up on other assus boards in the future so the performance may be 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:34.759 relevant I'm also going to test against the ever 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:38.640 popular Renaissance so this is on uh some of the higher end boards 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:44.560 particularly they used to be NEC usb3 chipsets so you can see I've got one 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.439 here on the z68a gd80 and finally I'm 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 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:56.439 just because it's a much more known quantity than the one on this a75 00:01:53.880 --> 00:02:00.840 chipset the last Drive configuration I'm going to test is the mushkin Ventura Pro 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 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:09.840 performance is between a high performance USB thumb drive like this an 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:12.760 Extreme Performance SSD on USB 3 and a 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:16.879 regular hard drive on USB 3 across all these different platforms so I'll be 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:21.360 back with results or with any abnormal findings throughout the testing here so 00:02:19.519 --> 00:02:26.959 the first round of testing on the ASUS a75 board is done so on the a75 00:02:25.480 --> 00:02:32.000 controller I accidentally wrote These in the wrong box I got 34.5 megab per 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:36.040 second consistently and I'm just timing this on my iPhone while I do the 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 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:46.760 so I'm going to go ahead and assume that's a chipset limitation on large 00:02:44.440 --> 00:02:53.560 file transfers on the as media controller however I got 125 mbes per 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:55.360 second on the glex with the Wildfire SSD 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 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:05.799 the this usb3 controller and then next we have 67 megabytes per second on the 00:03:02.959 --> 00:03:10.680 one or on the mushkin Ventura Pro remember that's the USB 3 stick and 00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:17.480 finally 50 let's call it 53 megabytes per second on the drive with a hard 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:18.319 drive as opposed to a solid state drive 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 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:28.879 Intel platform and we're going to test the usb2 for reference as well as the 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:34.000 Renaissance controller which you can see down there somewhere 00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:35.400 it's right there all right well I'm done 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 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 00:03:42.040 --> 00:03:47.920 sophisticated but yes this is actually how I'm testing it I press stop when 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.200 it's done transferring so here we go so I've tested the NEC Renaissance however 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:57.799 you pronounce that I have no idea controller you can see that you okay a 00:03:55.079 --> 00:04:04.599 few things become fairly apparent right off the bat here number one is is that 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:06.519 the Wildfire is not a bottleneck for any 00:04:04.599 --> 00:04:10.799 of these interfaces I mean we're we're not even seeing anywhere near the limit 00:04:08.640 --> 00:04:15.439 of what that thing is capable of doing next is that the Ventura Pro seems to 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 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:25.320 that'll be around 27 megabytes per second okay so these 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:30.880 are all in megabytes per second okay so the Ventura 00:04:26.840 --> 00:04:32.880 Pro is uh limited to 67 megab per second 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:38.120 cuz you can see these two controllers are both capable of higher numbers up to 00:04:34.759 --> 00:04:41.280 125 or 111 megab per second with the 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:43.960 glex interface on the Wildfire Drive 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 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 00:04:51.960 --> 00:04:59.960 usb3 controller is bottlenecking pretty much every solution here the USB 2 00:04:58.280 --> 00:05:04.479 controller performs consist consistently with all of them because once again it 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:09.199 is the bottleneck not the drives themselves and the Renaissance one that 00:05:06.960 --> 00:05:13.639 appears to be the limit because we see that the golex Wildfire performs better 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:18.440 on the as media controller so that Asia controller is actually looking pretty 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:23.440 darn good my results are not scientific and they are not accurate to within 01 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:27.800 of a megabyte per second these are all approximate number so take them with a 00:05:25.080 --> 00:05:32.479 grain of salt but there you have it the Renaissance controller is approxim Ely 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:38.440 four times faster than USB 2 the as media controller is about another 10% 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:43.400 faster than that and then the a75 controller seems to bring up the rear 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:46.560 here as far as the usb3 controllers go so thank you for checking out my video 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:52.919 don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:52.919 other computer videos