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@drian
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 Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:42 pm Post subject: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives
affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of
drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does.
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() |V| 3 G A
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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not heard that. but it dont mean it's not true.
my WD has jumper section for the PATA style setup, and also has a molex
power connection - maybe a standard metal shell to the HDD though that they
used for PATA and SATA drives. as for performance, i`m running WD raptor
(10k rpm, 8mb cache, 5.3ns seek) SATA drives in RAID0 config, and getting
71mb/s according to sandra (maxtor ATA133 ran at 30mb/s for comparison -
7.2k rpm, 2mb cache).
also i did my homework on the raptor drive, and it beats alot of the
tomshardware.com tested u320 scsi drives AS A SINGLE SATA150 drive. it was
competing with the maxtor atlas 10k6 (??) U320 scsi drive.
tim
"@drian" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives
affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of
drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate
does.
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Folkert Rienstra
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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"@drian" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:AB5mb.191257$0v4.14830087@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net
| Quote: | Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives
affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of
drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does.
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The answer is still the same as from the post that you got that belief from.
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@drian
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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"() |V| 3 G A" <spam_wasteground@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:bnbjdn$lv9$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
| Quote: | not heard that. but it dont mean it's not true.
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Yes, there is an article on Extremetech's storage section about it.
| Quote: | also i did my homework on the raptor drive, and it beats alot of the
tomshardware.com tested u320 scsi drives AS A SINGLE SATA150 drive. it
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competing with the maxtor atlas 10k6 (??) U320 scsi drive.
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Yes, that is a fast drive!
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@drian
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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"Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message
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| Quote: | The answer is still the same as from the post that you got that belief
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What post is that?
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Folkert Rienstra
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 12:30 am Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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"() |V| 3 G A" <spam_wasteground@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:bnbjdn$lv9$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
| Quote: | not heard that. but it dont mean it's not true.
my WD has jumper section for the PATA style setup, and also has a molex
power connection - maybe a standard metal shell to the HDD though that they
used for PATA and SATA drives.
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Any drive not used for backplane systems should have a Molex connector.
| Quote: | as for performance, i`m running WD raptor
(10k rpm, 8mb cache, 5.3ns seek) SATA drives in RAID0 config,
and getting 71mb/s according to sandra
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That is quite bad for a drive that can do near 60 MB/s on its own.
| Quote: | (maxtor ATA133 ran at 30mb/s for comparison - > 7.2k rpm, 2mb cache).
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That is appalling. A single drive can do twice that.
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also i did my homework on the raptor drive, and it beats alot of the
tomshardware.com tested u320 scsi drives AS A SINGLE SATA150 drive.
it was competing with the maxtor atlas 10k6 (??) U320 scsi drive.
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What Atlas 10k6? What homework?
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tim
"@drian" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:AB5mb.191257$0v4.14830087@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
Does the bridge chip installed on Maxtor, WD and IBM/Hitachi SATA drives
affect performance significantly? I didn't realize that these makes of
drives didn't natively support Serial ATA. As I believe, only Seagate does.
@drian.
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@drian
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 4:20 am Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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"Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message
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| Quote: | What Atlas 10k6? What homework?
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So far as the drive, he probably means the Maxtor Atlas 10K IV, probably got
the roman numerals reversed.
http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/scsi/atlas_10k_family/index.htm
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Wayne Youngman
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 11:02 am Post subject: Re: SATA drive's bridge chip |
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"() |V| 3 G A" wrote
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| Quote: | i`m running WD raptor
(10k rpm, 8mb cache, 5.3ns seek) SATA drives in RAID0 config, and getting
71mb/s according to sandra (maxtor ATA133 ran at 30mb/s for comparison -
7.2k rpm, 2mb cache).
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Hi,
71mb/s from RAID-0 Raptors? that can't be right?. Does the array feel fast
when you use it? maybe it's just the benchmarks reprting low?
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