This means that USB 3. SATA, of course, is a connection type that is used to connect an internal hard drive to a computer. So, inside your desktop or laptop is the hard drive, which in most cases, connects to the motherboard using a SATA interface. With eSATA, an external hard drive can use that same connection type and technology to be connect to the computer. The hard drive inside a computer is quicker than a standard external hard drive USB 2.
Thunderbolt cables are the newest connection type featured on this list. Thunderbolt is capable of more than other connection types, but we will get to that later. What kinds of speeds does Thunderbolt produce? Thunderbolt is rated at 10 Gbps per channel x2. Thunderbolt 2 raises that value to 20 Gbps over a single channel. Thunderbolt 3 doubles the bandwidth again to 40 Gbps. Firewire , or IEEE , is another connection type that was popular for a while, but has kind of gone away over the last few years.
This occurred even though Firewire and are faster than previous USB technologies not including 3. Ethernet is a connection type that is used mainly for networking, so it is not designed to be super-fast. However, Ethernet cables can be used to transfer computer data too. To summarize the above data, the connection types would result in the following, from fastest to slowest. However, this analysis is not quite accurate.
As mentioned earlier, in actual situations, many of these max speeds are rarely achieved. Here is a chart from Wikipedia that summarizes the specs for many connection types beyond just the ones I mentioned.
Let us take a good look at each of those interfaces and determine how they rank up against each other. Your computer is currently using SATA because of its hard disk. A lot of individuals may still assert that eSATA is most frequently used for the external hard drives. There are two ways that this is completed. Another would be to convert the information into one of those outside information transmission protocols. In any event, this will wind up having many additional steps and processing, which end up slowing the effective throughput.
Various benchmarking tests confirm this claim. Nowadays, it is an entirely different ballpark. With this transfer process, USB 3. The web consequence of this is that the protocol will do better with bigger data transfers like the ones demanded by watching a p movie that is being stored in an external hard disk.
So who is the real winner when it comes down to raw read and write rates? In all honesty, there is currently no real response to that. There are nevertheless some demanding benchmark quotes you may make an educated decision on. With an external hard drive, USB 3. In all those instances, the results were much lower than what was due to them.
Still better than USB2. Joined Sep 22, Messages Of course, if you are only looking at bandwidth USB 3. Krispy Kritter said:. What does that answer have to do with the question that you quoted? The question wasn't which ports were available, it was which was port faster. The answer to the question was there if you read the question correctly or looked beyond the first sentence of the answer. Enormous convenience trumps slightly better benchmarks and theoretically higher reliability.
Joined Jan 14, Messages 14, RandyG said:. Last edited: Sep 1, Joined Jul 11, Messages 10, With that said, USB has come a long way. GotNoRice All valid points man. It really depends on your usage. Joined Aug 16, Messages 14, None of my cases have any ports on the front panels either and they've also been disappearing on the crappy Lenovo desktops at the office Ranulfo 2[H]4U.
Joined Feb 9, Messages 2, Ranulfo said:. Maybe 3. Joined Feb 1, Messages 28, I would rather use eSATA, but you can't find motherboards with the port anymore.
The power issue is the biggest problem for convenience. The X58 board I'm using now has it, but I have to take the dock with me to use the drives anywhere.
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