Moving to USB 3, SATA 6

The next gen interfaces for USB 3 and SATA 6 provide never before speeds. A tremendous surge in their adoption is predicted with the major hardware players coming out with products, devices and support by incorporating them in their hardware.

However, there are vendors who have come up with extension cards which you just need to plug onto the existing PCIe card slots on your motherboard. Also there are motherboards coming up with SATA 6Gbps interfaces. These motherboards provide a PCIe card to provide USB 3.0 capabilities.

We did some basic level testing by comparing the performance of these interfaces on the new generation motherboards with these interfaces onboard, and also by plugging in a PCIe card. The rest of the test bed being kept constant, we changed the motherboards to test the performance difference.

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