SATA and eSATA Performance

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The eSATA controller needs to be set to RAID or ACHI under Vista for it to work properly. We tried it in IDE mode and it simply locked up Windows or refused to recognise the hard drive. When we did get it working under ACHI mode the performance we sub-par and very sporadic. Normally we see a consistently depreciating line, but in the case of the JMicron JMB362 on the Foxconn board it was littered with peaks and troughs indicating very inconsistent performance with a low overall throughput.

In a return to normality though, the SATA performance was solid at a standard 82.0 MB/s.

USB 2.0 Performance

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Again, the SB750 southbridge performance is really quite pitiful, but with the Foxconn it was consistently even lower than the Gigabyte board we recently tested with the same southbridge at under 25MB/s.