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Steve |
posted on 18th Nov 06 at 08:28 |
i use the Worcester number 45 bus tbh | |
John |
posted on 18th Nov 06 at 06:35 |
Anything which uses the pci bus can only go as fast as the pci bus. | |
ed |
posted on 17th Nov 06 at 20:46 |
I like SATA wires. They are tidy :) | |
ed |
posted on 17th Nov 06 at 20:45 |
Or wait until SATA IO comes out which is meant to be 6gb/s. But then you'll be left with the same problem of the connection not being utilised properly for a while :lol: | |
Dom |
posted on 17th Nov 06 at 19:04 |
quote: It's capable yes, but your still getting similar speeds to that of ATA133 - give it 6months/year and we'll see drives making use of the SATA connection properly :thumbs: | |
Andrew |
posted on 17th Nov 06 at 17:05 |
quote: Nice! | |
ed |
posted on 17th Nov 06 at 13:40 |
Aren't SATA II disks 3 GB/S? | |
Dom |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 23:07 |
quote: thats a different ball game then steve :P obviously spindle speed will make a difference, but most IDE/SATA drives are both 7.2kRPM. Take it you have a raptor? btw, WD did make the raptors in IDE when they first came out, they phased them out a year or two ago ;) If you want silly speeds (from a physical drive, not ram drives), Fibrechannel or Ultra360 SCSI is what you after as Seagates offer 15kRPM spindle speeds, 3.5ms seek times :cool: | |
Steve |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:58 |
dom what are talking about my sata drive is 10k rpm, ides are 7k max | |
Dom |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:40 |
IDE and Sata are pretty much equal in terms of read/write (currently anyways), the only thing that will make it faster is the cache on the drives - but most newer drives are usually 8MB cache (both IDE and SATA). | |
Rich H |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:33 |
Cheers :thumbs: | |
Steve |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:28 |
£100 for the card and about the same for the hdd, my card is a promise tx2200 | |
Rich H |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:26 |
Yeh SATA is faster than IDE by miles and is literally gonna have XP on it - I will then use my 2 existing IDE drives for data and applications. | |
Steve |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:08 |
my sata drive is fasterthan ide a lot faster | |
Dom |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 22:07 |
once the OS/Apps have loaded, the drive isn't really accessed that much mate (especially if you have enough ram), so it should be fine - might be worth investing in a decent card though, but can cost you anything from 60-300+. | |
Rich H |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 20:53 |
You get what I mean :lol: | |
Steve |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 20:51 |
it would be a pretty crap card if it burnt out :o | |
Rich H |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 20:49 |
So there isn't much chance of accessing the drive constantly due to it running the O/S being too much for the card to handle then? :D | |
Steve |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 20:47 |
i run my OS off a TX2200 sata card, running a WD 10000 rpm hdd | |
Rich H |
posted on 16th Nov 06 at 20:42 |
I want to get a SATA PCI card for my PC as my motherboard doesn't have a SATA socket. |