The test system and testing methodology:

We tested the hard drive unit attaching to a motherboard with third-generation USB controller, namely the Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3.

The motherboard is equipped with an Intel 3.2 GHz 2600K I7 belonging to the second generation of Core architecture of Intel i7 series.

To perform the test we used Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1, and we used the following synthetic benchmarks:

• HD Tune Pro 4.60 (reading and writing)
• ATTO Disk benchmark 2.46
• HD Tach 3.0.4.0
• Crystal Disk Mark 3.0
• AIDA 64 5.1