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is SATA that much faster than ATA 133 or 100? Can you notice it on hard drives? are the thinner cables really much better to use?
Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
SATA-II and SATA-I currently has no performance difference AT ALL
The harddrive is still teh bottleneck regarding transfer performance. Even bandwidth of the old ATA-100 is not fully utlised.
Currently drives transfer on average 50MB/s, with 70Mb/s burst speed. Still under 100MB/s
SATA-I 150MB/s, SATA-2 300MB/s are useless improvements
However, SATA drives do have better features and newer technologies such as higher platter density, quieter, minor performance improvements
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: AnnihilatorX
SATA-II and SATA-I currently has no performance difference AT ALL
The harddrive is still teh bottleneck regarding transfer performance. Even bandwidth of the old ATA-100 is not fully utlised.
Currently drives transfer on average 50MB/s, with 70Mb/s burst speed. Still under 100MB/s
SATA-I 150MB/s, SATA-2 300MB/s are useless improvements
However, SATA drives do have better features and newer technologies such as higher platter density, quieter, minor performance improvements
Some drives now come with Native Command Queueing, which I hear is supposed to be a good thing.
But as has been mentioned, hard drives can't even sustain speeds of 100MB/sec. The ATA/100/133, and SATA 150 speeds are the burst speeds, which the hard drive only needs to maintain for a small fraction of a second. It can do this by emptying its buffer chip all at once, but the largest buffer I've ever seen in a hard drive is only 16MB. So empty that in a tenth of a second, and your burst speed could be perceived as 160MB/sec, but only for that short time period.
Originally posted by: mettleh3d
Can you use ATA/133 and a SATA HDDs in the same system? No interference/conflicts?
Originally posted by: mettleh3d
hey, how does that work? Did you connect 4 SATA on your mobo and two thru IDE?