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Are these transfer speeds normal?
I have several external 4-drive enclosures. I have been using esata with an esata pci card since my computer doesn't have USB3, and I've been getting around 59-65MBps.
I bought a new USB3.0/esata enclosure last week, and decided to install a USB 3.0 pci card and try USB 3.0. So the card installed fine and the driver from the company website installed without issue. Today I connected the enclosure via USB 3.0 and the transfer speeds I'm getting are right around the same as my esata speeds - around 59-65MBps. By comparison, my USB 2.0 speed is around 29-33 MBps.
So USB 3.0 is faster than my USB 2.0, which is good, but I was expecting better performance out of USB 3. Could it be something on my motherboard that is causing a bottleneck in the speed, or could it be the hard drives itself that is the bottleneck? They're just standard 7,200 drives.
Last edited by tgfyhre; 21 Jun 2015 at 20:16.