I ran these on my (8GB RAM) Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K (not overclocked) H67 machine. I compared a newly bought USB 3.0 16 GB drive to an internal Kingston SATA and a previously purchased 8GB USB 3.0. I also compare the USB 3.0 drives to their performance with USB 2.0 port speeds.
Tested some more USB flash drives. Running from my Lenovo work laptop, USB 2.0 only: Random 8G USB from a vendor ———————————————————————– CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ———————————————————————– * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 18.216 MB/s Sequential Write : 4.232 MB/s Random Read [...]
I’ve recently got my OpenSolaris machine set up pretty much all right. During this set up, I disabled/disconnected a few hard drives. Namely, B) an external eSATA/USB Maxtor model 6Yxxxx 250 GB hard drive C) an internal SATA Maxtor model 7Yxxxx 250 GB hard drive, and D) an external 1 TB USB drive. Now that [...]