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Nice Zepher, how much did it cost and where did you get it?
USB 3.0 capable devices?
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New #12
$149 from Amazon.com. It belongs to a friend of mine. I am copying some data files for him.
I installed the USB 3.0 card in his PC and will do some more tests when I bring it back.
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New #13
i have a cheap usb2 iomega external 500gb hdd that was sharing bandwidth with two usb memory sticks and my wireless keyboard/mouse and wireless network card. i decided to add a usb card to give me more bandwidth, i went online to maplin (a parts store chain kinda like radio shack) and found the local branch had a 2-port usb3 pci-e card in stock, i figured i might as well splurge and spend the extra £10 for it rather than a usb2 one. went to maplin to pick it up, staff insisted they did not have one and they were not out yet. had them look it up, and lo and behold, they in fact had one. they located it and i took the prize home. works fine, usb sticks and the hdd work fine at usb2 speed, but with full speed. not seen any usb3 client devices here yet...
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New #14
Do they sell this one over there for a decent price?
Newegg.com - ASUS Model U3S6 USB 3.0 & SATA 6Gb/s Add-on card - Motherboard Accessories
This one has 2 USB 3.0 and 2 SATA 6Gb/s
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New #15
The speed of an external HDD is still limited by the read/write speed of the HDD itself. Even USB 2.0 transfers data faster than a mechanical HDD is capable of, so a USB 3.0 external HDD is not going to be any faster than a USB 2.0 external HDD
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New #19
That's about average for the benchmark test, which isn't exactly accurate for practical purposes. Moving a folder that has files scattered all over the HDD, which is pretty common with HDDs that have been defragmented regularly, takes a little longer and I think is a more accurate representation of how fast a HDD is. Perhaps it isn't actually reading any slower, just takes a little longer to seek, but I've never gotten a HDD to maintain read/write speeds over 60MB/s (480 Mb/sec) for anything over a few seconds once it gets to the smaller files that are being moved. Maybe I'm wrong, but either way, I don't care that much. It's not that important
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New #20
You can find more of them available every week.
These have 2 USB 3.0 and 2 SATA 6Gb/s, 17 mobos.
Good to future proof when you can :)
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