Motherboard with SATA3 and USB3

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:39:57 -0400, Mark F
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:43:04 -0400, Dewey Edwards
wrote:

Hi,

I,m planning on a new build early next month. I see boards that
support the above.

But, I haven.t seen hardware for it to justify it.
Seagate and Western Digital (as well as others) have external disk
drives using USB3 and running at about 90MB/second.

SATA III is can be used with various SSDs, but also with some spinning
disks, such as Western Digital VelociRaptor HLHX models
http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/librar...879-701284.pdf

SATA III would also be useful for use with a port multiplier, but I
couldn't find a SATA III port multiplier.

I'd hold out for PCI 3 also, but you made need PCI 2 on some slots
since PCI 3.0 doesn't support 5-volt power per
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periphe...t_Interconnect

Food for thought. Thanks.

Always read the reviews, to see if they're really worth having. SSDs in
general, have a pretty bad track record, in terms of consistent
performance under all circumstances.

What sites do you recommend reading? From what I've read, SSD's are pricey
but beyond that, I did not get a feeling of 'bad track record' as opposed to
standard HDs.

--g

geoff wrote:
Always read the reviews, to see if they're really worth having. SSDs in
general, have a pretty bad track record, in terms of consistent
performance under all circumstances.

What sites do you recommend reading? From what I've read, SSD's are pricey
but beyond that, I did not get a feeling of 'bad track record' as opposed to
standard HDs.

--g

If you look at the articles on Anandtech, it didn't take much testing
for them to find pathological conditions that are bad for SSDs. There
are some pages, like a few from OCZtechnology, that review some of the tweaks
that can be done to file systems on SSDs. There is also the "TRIM" command,
which is most likely to be supported in the most recent OSes.

You can get reviews on Newegg for the SSDs they sell. There are some of the
cheaper SSDs, where the reviews can be uniformly bad. There are products
where the average user is pretty happy. With some of the pathological test
cases, the claim is they might not happen to you with normal usage. But
really, compared to a regular hard drive, do I want to worry about this
stuff ? If I'm paying $400 for some fancy SSD, I expect to be able to sit
back and enjoy it, not have to pamper it.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...o-SSD-friendly

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=7

(I'm using AIOE.org, so have to split long URLs onto more than one line...)

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...309-Partition-
alignment-importance-under-Windows-XP-(32-bit-and-64-bit)..why-it-helps-with-stuttering-and-increases-drive-working-life.

Plus several articles on Anandtech...

Paul