Seagate and AMD demo 6 Gbps SATA

[Yousuf Khan]

Informational posting, looks like the next generation of SATA is around
the corner.

DailyTech - Seagate Demos 6Gb/sec SATA with AMD
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14523

Yousuf Khan

 

[YKhan]

    What use is a faster interface if disk rotational speed remains
the same?

I'm still waiting for a SATA chipset that doesn't corrupt data when
more than one SATA drive is put on it.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Andrew Hamilton]

I'm still waiting for a SATA chipset that doesn't corrupt data when
more than one SATA drive is put on it.

Can you elaborate. I just rebuilt the OS on my system, with four SATA
drives. I just added a 1 TB drive so I was re-organizing the
directories. I was copying from several to the 1 TB drive when WHAMMO
!! BSOD 1D if I remember correctly.

Is this what you are talking about?

Which chips? Which SATA controller (vendors)?

Thanks.

 

[Michael Cecil]

What use is a faster interface if disk rotational speed remains
the same?

Marketing. They want to stick fancy new big labels on their stuff.

 

[Igor Batinic]

Hi!

I'm still waiting for a SATA chipset that doesn't corrupt data when
more than one SATA drive is put on it.

Can you elaborate this? I've never seen such a thing, on the various
systems from 2 to 180 disks. )

Best regards,

Iggy

 

[calypso]

Can you elaborate this? I've never seen such a thing, on the various
systems from 2 to 180 disks. )

Don't compare it to XIV...

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[Igor Batinic]

Hi!

Don't compare it to XIV...

Just a joke. )

Best regards,

Iggy

 

[Arno]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:38:32 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"

Marketing. They want to stick fancy new big labels on their stuff.

Very likely. There are too many people out there that buy
the product with the highest number and have no understanding
whatsoever what the number means. Just look at all the people
that have asked here why their SATA disk does not give them
3Mbps or think it is defective because it does not....

Arno

 

[YKhan]

Can you elaborate.  I just rebuilt the OS on my system, with four SATA
drives.  I just added a 1 TB drive so I was re-organizing the
directories.  I was copying from several to the 1 TB drive when WHAMMO
!!  BSOD 1D if I remember correctly.

Sorry, it was just a little joke about something from another thread
in here that I was making. If you look at the thread entitled, "SATA
drives acting up, is Nforce to blame?", you'll see what I was talking
about.

Basically, the joke was specifically about Nvidia Nforce chipsets,
which have a nasty reputation for corrupting SATA hard disks. Not just
corrupting their data, but corrupting their electronics to the point
of not being able to use them anymore even in any other system. In my
case, it seems to happen when there were more than 1 SATA disk
installed, when the problems start. If you had just one SATA, it was
fine.

Is this what you are talking about?  

Which chips?  Which SATA controller (vendors)?

Since you had 4 SATA drives installed, then it seems likely that you
may have been affected. Do you have an Nvidia chipset in your machine?
It doesn't seem to matter if you have an AMD or an Intel processor,
the common factor seems to be the Nvidia chipset.

Yousuf Khan

 

[YKhan]

Can you elaborate this? I've never seen such a thing, on the various
systems from 2 to 180 disks. )

Best regards,

Iggy

Nvidia SATA driver bricks Windows - The Inquirer
"THERE IS simmering discontent on the world wide wibble about Nvidia's
SATA driver with punters complaining that it has a nasty habit of
bricking Windows.

Following a tip off, we did a search on "nvgts.sys BSOD" and found
shedloads of posts weeping and wailing about the fault.
There were even a few moans on Graphzilla's own forums where users
were also complaining that Nvidia was treating them all to a deafening
silence."
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/546/1000546/nvidia-sata-driver-bricks

 

[YKhan]

    I wonder if Monster Cable makes a SATA cable using only high
bandwidth copper isotopes.

*TimDaniels*

Monster only builds them with gold isotopes.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Andrew Hamilton]

Since you had 4 SATA drives installed, then it seems likely that you
may have been affected. Do you have an Nvidia chipset in your machine?
It doesn't seem to matter if you have an AMD or an Intel processor,
the common factor seems to be the Nvidia chipset.

Yousuf Khan

Yousaf,

Thank you for your reply.

I don't have a NVidia chipset, or didn't until I just replaced my
graphics card. The SATA drives are controlled by an Adaptec 1240 SATA
II controller.

-AH

 

[larry moe 'n curly]

Monster only builds them with gold isotopes.

A superior brand (i.e., even more expensive than Monster) uses
"conductive dielectric". Really, I saw that claim at the UK website
of a company that sold A/V cables.

 

[Frazer Jolly Goodfellow]

A superior brand (i.e., even more expensive than Monster) uses
"conductive dielectric". Really, I saw that claim at the UK website
of a company that sold A/V cables.

....which presumably contains 100% pure Unobtanium Oxymoronate, distilled
from free-range organic snake oil?

 

[Arno]

A superior brand (i.e., even more expensive than Monster) uses
"conductive dielectric". Really, I saw that claim at the UK website
of a company that sold A/V cables.

[/QUOTE]

...which presumably contains 100% pure Unobtanium Oxymoronate, distilled
from free-range organic snake oil?

Sounds good! I bet a "conductive dielectric" can also be used
to create energy out of nothing!

 

[Yousuf Khan]

Thank you for your reply.

I don't have a NVidia chipset, or didn't until I just replaced my
graphics card. The SATA drives are controlled by an Adaptec 1240 SATA
II controller.

An Nvidia graphics card has nothing to do with it, that's a totally
separate product made by Nvidia. It's only affected by an Nvidia
motherboard chipset.

The motherboard chipset is that chip on the motherboard that is already
soldiered on when you receive it. It controls all of the i/o
capabilities of your system, such as PCI/PCI-e connectors, SATA, IDE,
floppy, USB, etc. It's the most important chip on your system right
after the CPU.

Yousuf Khan

 

[Andrew Hamilton]

An Nvidia graphics card has nothing to do with it, that's a totally
separate product made by Nvidia. It's only affected by an Nvidia
motherboard chipset.

Yousuf Khan

Yousaf,

This is an older system with an AMD 76x chipset. I would have
replaced this system last year, but then the economy nose-dived. I'm
hoping to replace this old system later this year with an ASUS P6T
with an Intel i7 920. Hoping ...

 

[YKhan]

Yousaf,

This is an older system with an AMD 76x chipset.  I would have
replaced this system last year, but then the economy nose-dived.  I'm
hoping to replace this old system later this year with an ASUS P6T
with an Intel i7 920.  Hoping ...

Well, I don't think you have anything to worry about. The AMD 76x
chipset is much more reliable than Nvidia chipsets. And besides, the
RAIDing is being provided by your Adaptec controller, and not by the
chipset's built-in controller.

Yousuf Khan