USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0 Corsair Flash Drive

Benchmarking 16GB USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Corsair Flash Voyagers with the F2FS file-system from the Linux 3.8 kernel. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0 Corsair Flash DriveProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsAudioMonitorNetworkOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerDisplay DriverOpenGLCompilerFile-SystemScreen ResolutionUSB 3.0 Flash VoyagerUSB 2.0 Flash VoyagerAMD FX-8350 Eight-Core @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores)ASUS Crosshair V FormulaAMD ATI RD890 bridge8192MB60GB OCZ VERTEX2AMD Radeon HD 6570 512MBRealtek ALC889DELL P2210HIntel 82583V Gigabit ConnectionUbuntu 13.043.8.0-7-generic (x86_64)Xfce 4.10X Server 1.13.2radeon 7.1.02.1 Mesa 9.2-devel (git-d8d58bd) Gallium 0.4GCC 4.7 + Clang 3.3 (SVN 176002) + LLVM 3.3svnF2FS1920x1080OpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler Details- --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-ppl-version-check --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-cloog-backend=ppl --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-cloog --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic -v Disk Details- DEADLINE / acl,active_logs=6,background_gc_on,relatime,rw,user_xattrSystem Details- Disk Scheduler: DEADLINE.

USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0 Corsair Flash Drivefs-mark: 1000 Files, 1MB Sizefs-mark: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Sizedbench: 1postmark: Disk Transaction PerformanceUSB 3.0 Flash VoyagerUSB 2.0 Flash Voyager18.1317.5347.1937316.576.2338.473886OpenBenchmarking.org

FS-Mark

Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size

OpenBenchmarking.orgFiles/s, More Is BetterFS-Mark 3.3Test: 1000 Files, 1MB SizeUSB 3.0 Flash VoyagerUSB 2.0 Flash Voyager48121620SE +/- 0.35, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 318.136.571. (CC) gcc options: -static

FS-Mark

Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size

OpenBenchmarking.orgFiles/s, More Is BetterFS-Mark 3.3Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB SizeUSB 3.0 Flash VoyagerUSB 2.0 Flash Voyager48121620SE +/- 0.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 317.536.231. (CC) gcc options: -static

Dbench

Client Count: 1

OpenBenchmarking.orgMB/s, More Is BetterDbench 4.0Client Count: 1USB 3.0 Flash VoyagerUSB 2.0 Flash Voyager1122334455SE +/- 0.66, N = 3SE +/- 0.52, N = 347.1938.471. (CC) gcc options: -lpopt

PostMark

Disk Transaction Performance

OpenBenchmarking.orgTPS, More Is BetterPostMark 1.51Disk Transaction PerformanceUSB 3.0 Flash VoyagerUSB 2.0 Flash Voyager8001600240032004000SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 20.00, N = 3373138861. (CC) gcc options: -O3

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