Internals, Testing Methodology and System Setup
Internals

PhotoFast GBOX Mini - USB3.0 to SATA Adapter - Storage 11

Two screws and we get to the guts of the GBox Mini.

PhotoFast GBOX Mini - USB3.0 to SATA Adapter - Storage 12

The controller chip is the 1051 from ASMedia Technology.
The product page for this chip shows revision 1.3 supports USB3.0 at 5Gbps and SATA 6.0Gbps.

Testing Methods
     

Our tests are a good mix of synthetic and real-world benchmarks.  PCMark, IOMeter, HDTach, HDTune, Yapt and our custom File Copy test round out the selection to cover just about all bases.  If you have any questions about our tests just drop into the Storage Forum and we’ll help you out!     

Test System Setup     

We have switched our testbed over to a more dedicated, forward thinking machine.  We made some changes to help minimize test data scatter with higher bandwidth devices.  Sound is flat out disabled, with no additional card installed.  Video was *intentionally* shifted to a PCI unit to free up both PCIe-16 slots for testing tandem pairs of PCI Express cards (like ioDrivesDDRDrives, and high end RAID cards).  Spot checks against the previous rig showed a negligible change in test output.     

PC Perspective would like to thank ASUS, Corsair, and BFG for supplying some of the components of our test rig.     

Hard Drive Test System Setup
CPU Intel Core i7 920 @ 4 GHZ (HT disabled)
Motherboard Asus P6T + ASUS U3S6
Memory Corsair Dominator 6GB DDR3-1600
Hard Drive G.Skill 32GB SLC SSD
Sound Card N/A
Video Card BFG Geforce 8400 GS 512MB PCI
Video Drivers Geforce 181.22
Power Supply Corsair CMPSU-650TX
DirectX Version DX9.0c
Operating System Windows XP X64 SP2   
Windows 7 X64 (for TRIM testing)

  • PCMark05
  • Yapt
  • IOMeter
  • HDTach
  • HDTune     
  • PCPer File Copy Test

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