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Our standard video card platform, which we use for hard drives and SSD test, has one issue when it comes to the A-DATA N002 drive, it does not support USB 3.0. While you can plug in the USB cable into a USB 2.0 port, doing so will give less performance than using a true USB 3.0 port. In this case I began a search for a USB 3.0 motherboard to fit the bill.  AS SSD SATA  AS SSD USB 3.0  AS SSD Copy SATA  AS SSD Copy USB 3.0 The ASUS P6X58D Premium is the latest motherboard from ASUS. This board supports not only USB 3.0 but SATA 6 Gb/second ports. The X58 chipset sports enough PCI Express lanes to siphon some off for USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gb/second without sacrificing video card performance as a P55 or H55 chipset motherboard would do without a bridge chip. The P6X58D Premium is a great choice to test this SSD.  CrystalDiskMark SATA  CrystalDiskMark USB 3.0  HDTach SATA  HDTach USB 3.0 One issue in installing Windows and running tests on a hard drive or SSD drive is that some system resources will be used up running the tests on the same drive as the OS is installed on. I paired two WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 mode, installed Windows 7 and ran the tests off the A-DATA drive without an OS on it. HD Tach requires an un-partitioned drive to run the write test so it would not have worked anyway.  HD Tune Read SATA  HD Tune Read USB 3.0  HD Tune Write SATA  HD Tune Write USB 3.0 Performance on the A-DATA N002 drive is really impressive. A-DATA claims a sequential read/write speed of 200MB/second for read and 173MB/second on the write for the USB 3.0 interface. In my testing I reached speeds of up to 196.4MB/second on the read and 170.1MB/second on the write right within the range given by A-DATA with differences of 1.5% being negligible. Using the SATA interface I was able to get even higher performance scores across the board, scoring well above average performance when using the SATA interface. A-DATA designed this drive themselves and the performance shown by this drive is excellent.  PCMark Vantage SATA  PCMark Vantage USB 3.0  Sisoft Sandra SATA  Sisoft Sandra USB 3.0 Test System
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