SATA or EIDE drives

[Courseyauto]

Hi all
After waiting 3 day western digital answer me for the question asked :
what are the best drive for a home pc user?

Ps: a was referring to the speed and transfer rate of data per one
disk, and all what we been discussed here.

Then they reponse by this provocating message...

An ATA 100 hard drive is capable of transferring UP TO 100mb per
second, but in reality will never reach that speed. The average
read/write of this drive in question is from 15-35mb per second. For
the speeds that you want to reach, there is currently no ATA drives
available in a single drive configuration. There is however an option
to make 2 or more drives act as 1 to increase performance. This is
called RAID-0 (striping) (Redundant Array of independent Disks). In
reality, you would hook up 2 or more drives to a special controller
card. The drives will act and show as 1 drive in windows, and thus
doubling the performance. A basic Web Search on RAID will explain more
on this topic.
This is alll very true but there is a SATA drive that turns 10000 rpm
compared to the usual ones that turn 5400 and 7200 rpm which is considerably
faster. Although the interface will transfer at close to the same rate the
10000rpm give it better performance. DOUG

 

[DreamMaker]

My PCI buss is locked at 33, i have set it up to 37 but got errors at that.
Most later MB's will lock the PCI at 33 even though it doesn't show that way..
Sounds like you have an AMD motherboard?

A7v8x-x, none of the KT series AMD chipsets have PCI locking.

My raid set up is 2 Maxtor 133 drives with round cables,O problems with
yet. Very fast and so far reliable.
Gold is not a good electirc conductor, silver is the best followed by
copper. Many people have this misconception that gold is good. DOUG

i agree with you silver is less reactive than gold and should cost
less. but alluminum is the way to, maybe not much flexible but for the
motherboard it should be ok...

 

[Ben Pope]

But i'm a little bit concern about the 6Y120p0-80. In the test they
use a 120g as a disk build up with 80gigs platter. 120gigs with 2
platter of 80gigs!!! That does'nt work at all. I guess it was a 3
platter of 40 gigs. for the test it should as use the 160 gigs disk???
or maybe it an error that repeat it's self all the way to the
conclusion...

Maybe some confusion between platters and sides?

Ben

 

[Freddie Clark]

Gold is not a good electirc conductor, silver is the best followed by
copper. Many people have this misconception that gold is good. DOUG

The electrical resistivity of gold is 0.022 micro-ohm m at 20 °C. Which
while not as good as Silver or Copper is not 'bad'.
The main reason for the use of gold is its anti-corrosive properties. But
for all intents and purposes in the real world the use of gold silver or
copper (in untarnished form) is pretty much identical.

regards
Freddie

 

[Alessandro Morvillo]

Just buy a P4C800 that have the ICH5 chipset And, for now, I've tested so
many Maxtor DM9 7200 rpm ATA133 against Maxtor 7200 SATA that I can say that
the SATA have better performances. Not so high, of couse, but it's better
than an ATA.

 

[Courseyauto]

Just buy a P4C800 that have the ICH5 chipset And, for now, I've tested so
many Maxtor DM9 7200 rpm ATA133 against Maxtor 7200 SATA that I can say that
the SATA have better performances. Not so high, of couse, but it's better
than an ATA.
Are you comparing 2mb cach to 8mb cach,the 8 will be faster than the 2mb
versions. There should be no reason why a SATA drive will be faster on the PCI
buss over an ATA drive on the PCI buss. DOUG