USB-SATA

USB to SATA converter

License

Hardware is with CERN OHL v1.2 license

Software is with GPL3 license

Documentation is with CC BY-SA 4.0 license

USB-SATA Benchmark

Reference

Commands

Streaming I/O

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile bs=512M count=1 oflag=direct
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile bs=256M count=1 oflag=direct

Latency

hdparm -W0 /dev/sdx
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile bs=512 count=1000 oflag=direct

Results

Board	Streaming I/O	Latency
PC	30.2 MB/s	37.3938 ms
A20-MICRO	28.4 MB/s	30.5117 ms
A10-LIME	7.6 MB/s	33.1223 ms
A13-OLXn	30.0 MB/s	-
A64-OLXn	31.5 MB/s	36.6841 ms

PC

Streaming I/O

1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 35.5515 s, 30.2 MB/s

** 30.2 MB/s **

Latency

512000 bytes (512 kB, 500 KiB) copied, 37.3938 s, 13.7 kB/s

** 37.3938 ms **

A20-OLinuXino-MICRO

Streaming I/O

536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 18.9142 s, 28.4 MB/s

** 28.4 MB/s **

Latency

512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 30.5117 s, 16.8 kB/s

** 30.5117 ms **

A10-Lime

Streaming I/O

268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 35.4505 s, 7.6 MB/s

** 7.6 MB/s **

Latency

512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 33.1223 s, 15.5 kB/s

** 33.1223 ms **

A13-OLinuXino

Streaming I/O

268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 8.96246 s, 30.0 MB/s

** 30.0 MB/s **

A64-OLinuXino

Streaming I/O

536870912 bytes (537 MB, 512 MiB) copied, 17.0416 s, 31.5 MB/s

** 31.5 MB/s **

Latency

512000 bytes (512 kB, 500 KiB) copied, 36.6841 s, 14.0 kB/s

** 36.6841 ms **