SATA? viable option

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Figurt

Hi there,
currently my setup is
nf7-s, with 2500xp running at 11*207.
primary master, Maxtor 80gb, secondry WD 80 gb (both are 8mb cache
7200rpm..)
slave cd writer.
Im currently borrowing my mates 2x120gb seagate sata drives, in RAID0 and
the performance (well in benchmarks ATTO) is quite impressive, roughly
double (hitting 100mb+) of any of my IDE drives.
i dont need to upgrade at this moment, but the prices seem quite cheap for a
2*120 or 2*160 setup
the only doubt i have in my mind is that these SATA drives dont seem like
pure SATA, (the fact they have a chip to change from sata to pata? i
believe)
i did scour the net but couldn't find anything on the future of sata, or
what benefits sata2 will bring.
i dont mind waiting, if there is going to be a new development...
thank you
Figurt
 
SATA is here to stay. I am amazed at the guys that build these power boxes
and the feed them with an EIDE eye dropper.
I know of devices that go parallel to serial and sit on the back of the
drive, but have not seem any thing that goes serial to parallel. I use
these boots on one system.
The cable is thinner but not as flexible.
The reliability is the same as a single drive no matter what you read.
SATA in RAID is the highest speed we're going to get until a new south
bridge/PCI standard comes along. The 64 bit world will force it. The PCI bus
on the NF7 has a band width of 4 bytes and a speed of 33MHz =132Mhz.. But
the neither the BIOS or the OS will give up the PCI bus long enough for us
to get to 132MHz. The top seems to be about where you are, at around
100MB/s.
Guys with older EIDE drives profit because PATA RAID will double the speed
of the older drives also.In that case the speed is generally not system
limited. PATA Raid is also a work horse. We use both.
Jim
 
Within roughly a year or so the SATA standard will go from the current 150
Mbps to 300 Mbps.
 
jpsga said:
Guys with older EIDE drives profit because PATA RAID will double the speed
of the older drives also.In that case the speed is generally not system
limited. PATA Raid is also a work horse. We use both.
Jim
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Jim;

Can you add an old IDE as a second hd to an existing SATA setup? My mb has
one PATA hookup also.
Any pointers or just pull out of old box and put in new?
Thanks
Mark
 
DaveW said:
Within roughly a year or so the SATA standard will go from the current 150
Mbps to 300 Mbps.
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It was my understanding that SATA II drives were due early this year?
Any idea when the drives will drop?
 
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