Fastest Storage Device?

[Michael08]

Whats the fastest out of e-sata and USB 3.0 or an SSD?
If theres anything faster, can you say.

Also, If I had an SSD where I stored my OS, will it still boot games from my main HDD fast?

 

[txus.palacios]

A) A SATA-III SSD would be faster any day. Faster than that would be a RAID of SSDs.
B) No, they will boot at the speed of the HDD, move them to your SSD.

 

[Michael08]

A) A SATA-III SSD would be faster any day. Faster than that would be a RAID of SSDs.
B) No, they will boot at the speed of the HDD, move them to your SSD.

Thanks.

CLearly SSD is the winner.

What about
HDD (sata3) vs e-sata vs USB 3.0

 

[txus.palacios]

I guess they'll all perform at about the same speed, IIRC a mechanical HDD does not fill the bandwidth of USB3.0. And eSATA is just an external S-ATA port. HDDs do not get any benefit from S-ATA-III, they can't fill S-ATA II, let alone III.

 

[Michael08]

I guess they'll all perform at about the same speed, IIRC a mechanical HDD does not fill the bandwidth of USB3.0. And eSATA is just an external S-ATA port. HDDs do not get any benefit from S-ATA-III, they can't fill S-ATA II, let alone III.

So for a main storage device, I should just use USB 3.0 or e-Sata?

 

[txus.palacios]

So for a main storage device, I should just use USB 3.0 or e-Sata?

At the end of the day, it doesn't matters. USB 3.0 or eSATA. They will be almost the same performance, plus external drives are usually lower performance ones (f.ex. Caviar Green, Samsung EcoGreen...)

 

[Michael08]

I guess they'll all perform at about the same speed, IIRC a mechanical HDD does not fill the bandwidth of USB3.0. And eSATA is just an external S-ATA port. HDDs do not get any benefit from S-ATA-III, they can't fill S-ATA II, let alone III.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matters. USB 3.0 or eSATA. They will be almost the same performance, plus external drives are usually lower performance ones (f.ex. Caviar Green, Samsung EcoGreen...)

Thank you for answering.

If you don't mind, can you check out my other thread to see if you can answer it aswell?
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7149645#post7149645

 

[txus.palacios]

You're welcome.
For sure, no worries. :3