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if you care about performance, go PCI-E
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816152105
if you really care, buy a real drive controller...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816118100
As your attorney, I advise you to purchase a very fast controller with no top.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816151053
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Originally Posted by Bennylava Only problem I can think of with that is, will the speed of say... a Western Digital 640 Black, be able to saturate the PCI bus? Probly a dumb noob question, but I know the PCI bus is is pretty slow, and the hard drives are only getting faster these days. |
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816152105
if you really care, buy a real drive controller...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816118100
As your attorney, I advise you to purchase a very fast controller with no top.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816151053
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A slight error; SATA II transfer at 3 GB/s or 3000MB/s.
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Originally Posted by Phaedrus2129 Your average PCI slot will get about 133MB/s SATA II can transfer at 300MB/s But your average SATA hard drive rarely manages above 200MB/s So it will be slightly slower. However as long as it isn't your OS drive you won't even notice. |
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So why not just use an IDE drive? Or even a SATA drive, but adapted to IDE. if it's just for storage as you say, I don't think having it run a little slower would hurt anything.
Originally Posted by Bennylava I am looking to get a few more hard drives for storage, |
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No, it's 3Gbps or gigabits per second, which is 375MBps or megabytes per second. For some reason this is reported as 300 megabytes. And SATA I was 150MBps.
Originally Posted by r31ncarnat3d A slight error; SATA II transfer at 3 GB/s or 3000MB/s.
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That's sweet looking.
Originally Posted by LiNERROR if you care about performance, go PCI-E http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816152105 if you really care, buy a real drive controller... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816118100 As your attorney, I advise you to purchase a very fast controller with no top. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816151053
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sweet performing too... that's gigabit ethernet, serial console and mini-sas on the backplane...
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SATA II = 3 gigabit/s = 3072 megabit/s = 384 megabyte/s = 300 megabyte/s effective bandwidth
a single SATAII drive can max your PCI bus... if you want performance, do not use PCI controllers...
Originally Posted by r31ncarnat3d A slight error; SATA II transfer at 3 GB/s or 3000MB/s.
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a single SATAII drive can max your PCI bus... if you want performance, do not use PCI controllers...
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Gb != GB
Originally Posted by r31ncarnat3d A slight error; SATA II transfer at 3 GB/s or 3000MB/s.
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There's no such thing as SATA II.
The effective bandwidth is due to the encoding overhead. For every 10 bits of data, only 8 bits are usable.
SATA 3Gbps => 8b/10b encoding => 307.2MB/s
Originally Posted by LiNERROR SATA II = 3 gigabit/s = 3072 megabit/s = 384 megabyte/s = 300 megabyte/s effective bandwidth a single SATAII drive can max your PCI bus... if you want performance, do not use PCI controllers... |
The effective bandwidth is due to the encoding overhead. For every 10 bits of data, only 8 bits are usable.
SATA 3Gbps => 8b/10b encoding => 307.2MB/s
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That I do know, but you said MB, not Mb. It's my understanding that an capital B =bits, and lower case b=bytes.
I may be wrong, and if I am, I apologize
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Originally Posted by Phaedrus2129 No, it's 3Gbps or gigabits per second, which is 375MBps or megabytes per second. For some reason this is reported as 300 megabytes. And SATA I was 150MBps. |
I may be wrong, and if I am, I apologize
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