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Originally Posted by truth411
Thanks for the info, but I have to imagine that even usb 3.0 would be slower than internal Sata connections, but I could be wrong.
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Originally Posted by menendez1293
Isn't 3.0 a 5Gb/s connection on paper while the Sata is a 6Gb/s connection on paper?
I am assuming the One is a 6Gb/s connection internally as I haven't really read into the tech specs of it.
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Yep, on paper SATA is faster. However those bandwidth speeds have far surpassed the maximum bandwidth speeds that a hard disk drive can perform. In real world tests the faster HDDs can read and write around 100MB/s, or .8Gb/s. SSD are another story, they're typically 5x faster at this point, 500MB/s or about 4Gb/s.
As you can see mechanical drives simply aren't quick enough to utilize all that bandwidth. They probably won't ever be. SSD's are a different story.