Keep in mind that USB 3.0 drivers will only improve with time-I expect those speeds to increase steadily along with improved drivers. This test was not scientific, but it should give you a general idea of the speed difference.Īs you can see, the USB 3.0 dock performed the same transfer in less than half the time as the USB 2.0 dock. My motherboard is the Asus P6X58-E, which features two USB 3.0 ports. The source drive was another Samsung F3 drive, but 1TB in size. I tested the transfer of a large collection of media files ranging from 3-4mb mp3 files to 8Gb. the old one.įor the test I used a Samsung 500 GB Hard Drive. Since I already have a Thermaltake USB 2.0 dock, I decided to compare the two and give you an idea of what you'll gain in speed using this dock vs. However, what you do gain is everyday speed, that make backing up to external drives 3-4x faster. With two extremely fast SATA 6Gbs drives you might get somewhere close, but with standard 7200rpm drives or even most SSDs, your throughput is going to be limited by the disk, not the USB standard. The 5gbps speed that Thermaltake quotes is pretty theoretical at this point. I purchased this dock to use with my new computer which supports USB 3.0, since USB 3.0 is currently as fast or faster than Esata, and while it's not much faster now, as drivers improve it will far surpass it. Thermaltake knows how to make a dock, and my USB 2.0 dock still works perfectly 3 years later and I expect this one to be just as reliable. It makes backing up your system, cloning hard drives, and diagnosing problems with hard disks not just easy but enjoyable. It's hands down the single most useful computer peripheral I've ever owned. I've owned the USB 2.0 / Esata version of the Thermaltake Hard drive dock for about 3 years.
Backward-Compatible with USB 2.0 (Max: 480 Mbps) 1.1 (Max: 12 Mbps). Supports USB 3.0 SuperSpeed - Maximum Transfer Rate up to 5.0 Gbps.
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