Review: ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 - Thuban's best friend?

Storage subsystem

We've used the same Seagate 500GB hard drive, housed in a USB 3.0 caddy, for the external-storage transfer tests. The only difference is with respect to which motherboard port the cable is plugged into. USB 3.0 is approximately 3x faster, and the limiting factor is the drive.