got a few verbatim usb3 measuring it on a usb3 host, they have a write buffer for the first 100mb or so... i can write to them at 90Mb/s... but after that, i g

got a few verbatim usb3 measuring it on a usb3 host, they have a write buffer for the first 100mb or so... i can write to them at 90Mb/s... but after that, i got a stable 7Mb/s. and i bet this is the standard for all brands. reading is fine all the way at ~95Mb/s that said, my HTPC runs off two of those drives in a USB2 port and it's fine. edit: regarding the coding horror link, i would never base my drive speed test on windows 8 copy dialog...