SATA and USB Speeds

Using HDTach 3.0.1.0 and a few handy peripherals, we were able to get some benchmark numbers off of the SATA controllers on the boards as well as the USB connections

SATA Performance — South Bridge

Here we tested the south bridge based SATA controller.  We used a Raptor 74 GB 10k RPM hard drive for the test drive.

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USB Performance

Taking a 7200 RPM IDE external hard drive from Western Digital we use HDTach to find the top transfer speeds on both motherboards.

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The numbers are very close here. With the closely related southbridges on the abit boards this also falls within the expected results.

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