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 both the SATA controllers on the boards as well as the USB and FireWire connections.
SATA Performance – South Bridge
Here we tested the two south bridge based SATA controllers. We used a new Raptor 150 GB 10k RPM hard drive for the test drive.
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.
The SATA performance is identical across all three motherboards using the SB600 south bridge chip with the AMD 690G. The USB performance is actually a bit slower than the Asus and MSI options but is still pretty good.
