SATA and eSATA Performance

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We tested the SATA and eSATA performance with an Intel X25-M SSD to maximise the use of the SATA connections to show up any core differences in raw performance.




SATA performance is excellent, but the additional Marvell SAS controller that Asus also uses on its P6T Deluxe is slightly slower than the competition, although it's still far faster than MSI's JMicron chipset on the Eclipse.

The eSATA performance is better for the Gigabyte simply because it incorporates PCI brackets to use the native SATA ports, whereas the other boards use dedicated controllers, like the Foxconn which uses JMicron for both the eSATA and IDE ports. The performance is slightly better, but pretty much the same as the Asus-Marvell combination and still better than the MSI.

USB 2.0 Performance

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We tested the USB performance with an Intel X25-M SSD and a SATA to USB adapter to saturate the USB bus in order to look for any performance drops.


The USB on the Foxconn works just fine - in line with other X58/ICH10R boards.