Icy Dock Blizzard HDD Enclosure & EZ-Dock Docking Station

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Icy Dock Blizzard HDD Enclosure & EZ-Dock Docking Station

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Re: Icy Dock Blizzard HDD Enclosure & EZ-Dock Docking Statio

Post by Cynyr » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:18 pm

Quick question on the esata statements... Does that mean the esata port on my sata 6gbps only motherboard is likely a 6gbps port as well? I've looked around but I haven't found anyone actually test the same setup in both internal and esata ports to check. Nor can i find any mention anywhere that esata supports anything over sata 3gbps speeds.

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Post by continuum » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:31 pm

IIRC the USB interface performance limit you're seeing would probably be solved with a USB controller that supports USAP or whatnot. I don't think it's specifically a hard limit with USB 3.0 you're seeing.

AsMedia controllers with appropriate driver do support this, and I believe if your testing OS was Windows 8, Windows 8 natively supports USAP.

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