I'm just wondering if anyone here has any thoughts on the reliability of the new SATA 3.0 drives. Are there any unusual "gotchas" that I should be looking out for?
Thanks everyone!
--Bob Harris
Thanks everyone!
--Bob Harris
So, if I understand what you are saying, there is no point in acquiring one of the newer SATA drives because it would really make no significant difference?
I'm looking at a new MB. It has one IDE port which is really intended for the optical drives. The SATA ports are listed as 3.0 in the spec sheets. So I'll have to get some kind of SATA drive.
Am I correct that all SATA drives are compatible with the ports, even if they are 3.0? Kind of like USB 2 v. USB 1?
Thanks for your reply. I sincerely appreciate it!
--Bob
Well, I can see the need for SATA 2.0 in certain situations.
Since its a theoretical max of 300MB/s and HDDs max out at around 60-80MB/s sustained, you can derive that about 4 HDD's that are RAID 0'd can come close to maxing out the 300MB/s.
So there is an application with RAID'd arrays, but to the wide consumer base, no real difference in terms of speed.
and only 2 for pata.
sata is an interface, the hard drive will not run that fast. Current hard drives cannot even max out the sata 1 interface so what's the point? Even the I-Ram memory drive is only sata 1 because that's all it can use.
This isn't true for the most part of what a typical end-user sees. It really depends on the controller you have.Well I can see what you're saying but that actually isn't necessarily true since each of the drives would get a dedicated 300MB/s (hence the SERIAL part) so you'd still have a highly underutlized bus. As for the whole I-ram thing I see a lot of possibility with that.