Toshie M500 Cardbus + Sil3112 Benchmarks

terrastrife · 18th December 2008, 1:57 PM

just picked up an eSata Cardbus host to check out if the Ti controller was anygood. As most of you know USB2 sucks for HDDs but the problem with a CB card is that most controllers are worse than USB2 being 16bit but with 32bit compatibility so you really lonly get 16-20MB/sec.
The M500 has the old Ti controller, Ti well known for making great USB2 and Firewire hosts.

internal hdd

usb2

Sil 3112 eSata host

ill pop my 1.5tb seagate on to test when i can find my sata to esata cable.

terrastrife · 18th December 2008, 4:28 PM

seagate 1.5tb sraight sata to esata... guess i found the limits of my cardbux controller and/or sil3112 ...that or ive hit some random seagate firmware issue like usual, the graph looks freaskly famniliar to other seagates with issues with bandwidth :P

one4spl · 28th December 2008, 1:19 PM

Looks like proper cardbus then... capping out at close to PCI speeds

My new Dell E6500 has cardbus, expresscard and esata

Unfortunately it bluescreens if I try hot-plugging esata

18th December 2008, 1:57 PM	#1
terrastrife Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: ADL/SA The Monopoly State Posts: 9,802	Toshie M500 Cardbus + Sil3112 Benchmarks just picked up an eSata Cardbus host to check out if the Ti controller was anygood. As most of you know USB2 sucks for HDDs but the problem with a CB card is that most controllers are worse than USB2 being 16bit but with 32bit compatibility so you really lonly get 16-20MB/sec. The M500 has the old Ti controller, Ti well known for making great USB2 and Firewire hosts. internal hdd usb2 Sil 3112 eSata host ill pop my 1.5tb seagate on to test when i can find my sata to esata cable.

18th December 2008, 4:28 PM	#2
terrastrife Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: ADL/SA The Monopoly State Posts: 9,802	seagate 1.5tb sraight sata to esata... guess i found the limits of my cardbux controller and/or sil3112 ...that or ive hit some random seagate firmware issue like usual, the graph looks freaskly famniliar to other seagates with issues with bandwidth :P Last edited by terrastrife; 18th December 2008 at 4:31 PM.

28th December 2008, 1:19 PM	#3
one4spl Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Jamboree Hts, Brisbane Posts: 397	Looks like proper cardbus then... capping out at close to PCI speeds My new Dell E6500 has cardbus, expresscard and esata Unfortunately it bluescreens if I try hot-plugging esata __________________ Pics! Twitter!