Dell PowerVault RD1000 Supplementary Manual page 5

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The benefits of USB 3.0 on RD1000 are immediately clear. Out of the box RD1000 USB 3.0 provides an
approximate 20% increase with even just a USB 2.0 host. The write performance jumps from an average
of 21.8 MB/s with USB 2.0 to 26.2 MB/s with USB 3.0 connected to a USB 2.0 host. With an end-to-end
USB 3.0 solution the performance reached speeds of 74 MB/s.
On reads, the performance with USB 3.0 over USB 2.0 was also very apparent. RD1000 USB 3.0 also
provides an approximate 20% increase on the read performance over USB 2.0. The read performance
with USB 2.0 was 25.5 MB/s and 30.2 MB/s with USB 3.0 connected to a USB 2.0 host. The RD1000 3.0
end-to-end solution averaged approximately 72 MB/s.
Write Performance
RD1000 USB 2.0 vs. RD1000 USB 3.0
USB 3.0 Dock / USB 3.0 Cable / USB 3.0 Host
USB 3.0 Dock / USB 3.0 Cable / USB 2.0 Host
USB 2.0 Dock / USB 2.0 Cable / USB 2.0 Host
Figure 1 - Write Performance Testing - RD1000 USB 2.0 and USB 3.0
500 GB
RD1000 Cartridge Size (GB)