USB 3.0 & the Corsair Voyager GTR

Instead of moving to a brand new motherboard sporting the latest interfaces, the decision was made to go with a simple yet cost-effective solution. We contacted ASUS about their U3S6 add-in card and they were more than happy to send one. This $25 ($35 in Canada) board installs into any free PCI-E x4 slot on your motherboard and offers both USB 3.0 and SATA 6 with an interface that supposedly doesn't bottleneck either. Interestingly, you could buy almost seven U3S6 cards for the price of a single 64GB Corsair Voyager GT.

As with anyone, we're excited about the performance that both USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps bring to the table but it's quite apparent that it will take a while before both technologies are widely accepted. AMD's new 800-series motherboards natively support the newest SATA as will Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge architecture but the general acceptance of USB 3.0 is a while away. So until that time we will need to stick with bridge chips on our motherboards or add-in cards like the U3S6 from ASUS... HardwareCanucks