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SATA drive's bridge chip
Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives
affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does. @drian. |
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"@drian" wrote in message
Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does. The answer is still the same as from the post that you got that belief from. @drian. |
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not heard that. but it dont mean it's not true.
my WD has jumper section for the PATA style setup, and also has a molex power connection - maybe a standard metal shell to the HDD though that they used for PATA and SATA drives. as for performance, i`m running WD raptor (10k rpm, 8mb cache, 5.3ns seek) SATA drives in RAID0 config, and getting 71mb/s according to sandra (maxtor ATA133 ran at 30mb/s for comparison - 7.2k rpm, 2mb cache). also i did my homework on the raptor drive, and it beats alot of the tomshardware.com tested u320 scsi drives AS A SINGLE SATA150 drive. it was competing with the maxtor atlas 10k6 (??) U320 scsi drive. tim "@drian" wrote in message ... Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does. @drian. |
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"() |V| 3 G A" wrote in message
... not heard that. but it dont mean it's not true. Yes, there is an article on Extremetech's storage section about it. also i did my homework on the raptor drive, and it beats alot of the tomshardware.com tested u320 scsi drives AS A SINGLE SATA150 drive. it was competing with the maxtor atlas 10k6 (??) U320 scsi drive. Yes, that is a fast drive! @drian. |
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"() |V| 3 G A" wrote in message ... not heard that. but it dont mean it's not true. my WD has jumper section for the PATA style setup, and also has a molex power connection - maybe a standard metal shell to the HDD though that they used for PATA and SATA drives. Any drive not used for backplane systems should have a Molex connector. as for performance, i`m running WD raptor (10k rpm, 8mb cache, 5.3ns seek) SATA drives in RAID0 config, and getting 71mb/s according to sandra That is quite bad for a drive that can do near 60 MB/s on its own. (maxtor ATA133 ran at 30mb/s for comparison - 7.2k rpm, 2mb cache). That is appalling. A single drive can do twice that. also i did my homework on the raptor drive, and it beats alot of the tomshardware.com tested u320 scsi drives AS A SINGLE SATA150 drive. it was competing with the maxtor atlas 10k6 (??) U320 scsi drive. What Atlas 10k6? What homework? tim "@drian" wrote in message ... Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does. @drian. |
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"Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message
... What Atlas 10k6? What homework? So far as the drive, he probably means the Maxtor Atlas 10K IV, probably got the roman numerals reversed. http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/sc...mily/index.htm @drian. |
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"() |V| 3 G A" wrote snip i`m running WD raptor (10k rpm, 8mb cache, 5.3ns seek) SATA drives in RAID0 config, and getting 71mb/s according to sandra (maxtor ATA133 ran at 30mb/s for comparison - 7.2k rpm, 2mb cache). Hi, 71mb/s from RAID-0 Raptors? that can't be right?. Does the array feel fast when you use it? maybe it's just the benchmarks reprting low? -- Wayne ][ Barton (AQXEA) XP2500+ @ 2.2GHz (10x220) - 1.75vCore CoolerMaster Aero 7 Lite - 3,200rpm ABIT NF7-S (v2.0 - BIOS#14) 512MB Dual TwiSTER PC3500 @ DDR440 1:1 (8,3,3,2.0 - 2.8v) Sapphire Atlantis 9800 - 3.3ns Samsung 240GB (2x120GB) WD-SE SATA RAID-0 (16k Stripe) Antec SX630II Mini-Tower Case Inc 300w PSU WinXP-PRO-SP1 Cat 3.7 - DX9.0b |
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