SATA drive's bridge chip

[@drian]

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.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

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.

 

[\(\) |V| 3 G A]

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]

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.

 

[@drian]

The answer is still the same as from the post that you got that belief

from.

What post is that?

@drian.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

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?

 

[@drian]

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/scsi/atlas_10k_family/index.htm

@drian.

 

[Wayne Youngman]

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 ][

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