Moon
09-09-2010, 11:58 AM
I recently bought an external hard disk docking station (see attached picture) that has a new USB3 connection. I put a USB3 card in my PC and did some speed tests by comparing the speed when the docking station was plugged into the USB2 and the USB3 ports on my PC. Here are the results:
Test data: 40 x 20,925 KB .fit files (typical imaging session?). Total 817Mb
Copy from PC to Hard Disk:
USB2 = 41 sec
USB3 = 20 sec
Copy files from Hard Disk to PC
USB2 = 26 sec
USB3 = 14 sec
As an aside, it took 4:03 to copy the same files across my wireless network (from the observatory to the house) and 1:16 to copy them across my CAT5 network from PC to PC.
James
Test data: 40 x 20,925 KB .fit files (typical imaging session?). Total 817Mb
Copy from PC to Hard Disk:
USB2 = 41 sec
USB3 = 20 sec
Copy files from Hard Disk to PC
USB2 = 26 sec
USB3 = 14 sec
As an aside, it took 4:03 to copy the same files across my wireless network (from the observatory to the house) and 1:16 to copy them across my CAT5 network from PC to PC.
James