How the Thunderbolt performance stack against eSATA? Macworld lab test results show that thunderclap provides an important impetus over eSATA - it is not as spectacular as improvements on the FireWire 800, but still very impressive.
Macworld Lab recently compared the Thunderbolt and FireWire 800 performance. In response to this report, Macworld readers want to see how fast Thunderbolt stacked against other interface technologies — in particular, eSATA.
As with the Thunderbolt/FireWire 800 tests, we still have a problem come with similar external devices. The Pegasus R6 promise has six players and only one single type of connection: Thunderbolt. We do not have access to a range of six - bay with eSATA, comparison, we used the SmartStore DS4600 promise, but it has four drive bays and FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. With two external bays in RAID 0 format, we found performance Thunderbolt almost four-and-half times faster that in our Test System AJA eSATA read results and about eight times faster than eSATA in our write AJA System Test results.
With our 2 GB file tests, copy us a file of 2 GB of internal disk of Mac in the external table that tests the speed of writing of the external table. Then copy us the 2 GB file internally, which tests the speed of reading of the external. Repeat us the tests with a value of GB conatining 2 files folder.
As a first step, these tests have shown different results, compared to Tests system AJA - eSATA results were very similar to the Thunderbolt results and FireWire 800 conditioned even number decent. The problem was the slow internal drive in the MacBook Pro, so we fired the DSS of MacBook Pro 15-inch and installed in the 17-inch MacBook Pro. The bottleneck has been removed, and once more, we have seen the differences between the three interfaces high performance.
When reading from a file of 2 GB, Thunderbolt was 39% faster than eSATA and two times faster than FireWire 800. Writes this file of 2 GB, Thunderbolt was more than two times faster than eSATA and 2.8 times faster than FireWire 800. Read a file of 2 GB, Thunderbolt was 30% faster than eSATA and 73% faster than FireWire 800. Writing of the record, thunderclap is two times faster than eSATA and 2.4 times faster FireWire 800.
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