Author Topic: Hard Drive upgrade (Read 536 times)

Easyscor · « **Reply #15 on:** December 12, 2007, 08:12:24 PM »

In Silicon Valley I can't find a HD less then 180 Gig now unless it's used, it's just crazy out here.

Krusty · « **Reply #16 on:** December 12, 2007, 10:26:28 PM »

<-- hates Easycor

Fulmar · « **Reply #17 on:** December 13, 2007, 07:00:44 AM »

Even though your through put is 3.0Gb/s on an SATA II drive, hard drives can barely utilize SATA I's 1.5Gb/sec speed (which is just barely faster than ATA 133).

Look at benchmarks over at tomshardware guide. Compare PATA and SATA drives and you'll see that the average/max drives put about about 65/90 Mb/s. That's not even using the full capacity of ATA100.

When I first built this computer I had 1 SATA drive. Hard drive tach showed about an average 70Mb/s. Once I added an identical drive and setup in a RAID 0 combo, I benched about 101-102Mb/s

Krusty · « **Reply #18 on:** December 13, 2007, 09:56:32 AM »

The ATA133 and SATA1.5 theoretical burst rates are about the same for the drive itself, but that's totally ignoring the data bus and the way the info is received/processed. Newer technology allows more bits to be sent along 2 wires and at a faster rate than the old 16 bit (ATA) setup. That's how I read it.

And, that's assuming you have an ATA133 drive, and not a ATA100, or ATA66.