GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD5 AMD 890FX Motherboard Review

USB3 Testing

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible.

Testing of the USB3 was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The hard drive used was a Western Digital 640Gb Black Edition Hard drive.

Benchmark Results: The GIGABYTE 890FXA-UD5 had average read rates that hit the same 94.5MB/s speeds as the top boards. The average write it was able to achieve was a 91.4MB/s rate which was slightly lower than most of the other boards.

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes
many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting,
folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file
benchmark.

Testing of the USB3 was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The hard drive used was a Western Digital 640Gb Black Edition Hard drive.

Benchmark Results: HD Tune shows us very similar results to HD Tach. Average read rates were at the top of the charts with 90.4MB/s, while the average write of 87.9MB/s was just slightly below some of the other boards.