Promise SATA 300 (SATA-IO) PCI controller on a a SATA 150 capable motherboard.

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Serge

I was wondering if it makes any sense to buy and install a SATA 300
controller to work with two WD SATA 300 drives. I kind of doubt I will
achieve 300mb buffer to host transfers with only SATA 150 motherboard.
Thanks in advance for any input, folks!
 
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ms

Serge said:
I was wondering if it makes any sense to buy and install a SATA 300
controller to work with two WD SATA 300 drives. I kind of doubt I will
achieve 300mb buffer to host transfers with only SATA 150 motherboard.
Thanks in advance for any input, folks!

These things are usually marketing crap. things like striped RAID arrays on
home computers look great on benchmarks, but in the real world offer no
benefit, only increase the chances of your system going down.

Unless you have some specific task in mind save your money.
 
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DL

The sata 300 offers increased throughput, on the test bench it may be
significant, but with real apps ????
Of course it may depend on what type of apps you are running, and how deep
is your pocket
 
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Timothy Daniels

Serge said:
I'm running Photoshop CS2, and I'm hoping to speed it up a bit.


As I've read, the most effective speed-up method is to add RAM.

*TimDaniels*
 
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Serge

Timothy, actually I already have 4Gb of RAM. I should've bought 2 Raptors,
but it's too much money for too little storage.
Cheers.
 
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Timothy Daniels

Serge said:
Timothy, actually I already have 4Gb of RAM. I should've
bought 2 Raptors, but it's too much money for too little storage.
Cheers.

Try comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage and alt.comp.hardware.
It would help to know whether your data bus is PCI or PCIe and
if you think your CS work is I/O-constrained or CPU-constrained.
With 4GB of RAM, your system might be power supply-constrained.
<giggle>

*TimDaniels*
 

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