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SATA III - is it going to immprove anything?
I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it
looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? .... or have I read something wrong? |
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SATA III - is it going to immprove anything?
Shaun wrote:
I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? ... or have I read something wrong? How else can they keep selling you stuff you dont need, because the old hardware is oke?? By changing things of course. You need MULTY Terabyte storage you know...... And you must really use 8core with USB15, must you not?? Until we kill USB of course. Then you REALLY need the next generation gismo. Besides, who needs access to all those old backups, after we improve all that hardware? |
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"Sjouke Burry" wrote in message ... Shaun wrote: I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? ... or have I read something wrong? How else can they keep selling you stuff you dont need, because the old hardware is oke?? By changing things of course. You need MULTY Terabyte storage you know...... And you must really use 8core with USB15, must you not?? Until we kill USB of course. Then you REALLY need the next generation gismo. Besides, who needs access to all those old backups, after we improve all that hardware? Ha Ha! Actually there not impoving things at all. I have had a new Seagate hard drive fail, it took 3 months. My parents had a seagate harddrive 1 TB die after 2 months of use and my cousin has had a recently bought harddrive die too, all in the last year. They used to be more reliable than this, now they just sell them cheap and obviously make them cheap. Personally I would prefer to spend a bit more for a hard drive if I knew the reliability was better. I'm not sure if WD is any better. The salesman at a local computer store said it was a crap shoot. Then there is memory that appearently works at much faster speeds, bull****. The wait states on the memory in my Pentium 4, 800 Mhz FSB has cas and ras numbers around 3 clock cycles. Now they claim memory is working at 1300 to 1600 Mhz but the cas and ras numbers are 9 or 10, What a bunch of bull****. my rant, Shaun |
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SATA III - is it going to immprove anything?
"Shaun" wrote in message
... I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? SSDs |
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:30:14 -0600, "Shaun" wrote:
I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? SSD http://newsroom.intel.com/community/...ata-throughput http://www.techspot.com/news/42598-i...hroughput.html |
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"Ken" wrote in message ... On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:30:14 -0600, "Shaun" wrote: I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? SSD http://newsroom.intel.com/community/...ata-throughput http://www.techspot.com/news/42598-i...hroughput.html Yah ok, SSDs. What about that stuff I wrote about memory speed? What do you think of that? Shaun |
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"Shaun" wrote in message
news What about that stuff I wrote about memory speed? What do you think of that? CL is only half the equation. CAS/Frequency*1000 gets you the latency in nanoseconds. DDR-1600 CL8 is twice as fast as PC100 CL2. Wikipedia has a nice chart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_latency |
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Shaun wrote the following on 2/28/2011 18:09:
snip Actually there not impoving things at all. I have had a new Seagate hard drive fail, it took 3 months. My parents had a seagate harddrive 1 TB die after 2 months of use and my cousin has had a recently bought harddrive die too, all in the last year. They used to be more reliable than this, now they just sell them cheap and obviously make them cheap. Personally I would prefer to spend a bit more for a hard drive if I knew the reliability was better. I'm not sure if WD is any better. The salesman at a local computer store said it was a crap shoot. snip If I'm in the market for a hard drive, I usually try to purchase "Enterprise-class" or server drives. If you look in the spec sheet a MTBF will be specified. Consumer-type drives don't have MTBF listed. I've had very good luck purchasing drives this way - and they are not all that much more expensive. Lance ***** |
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SATA III - is it going to immprove anything?
Shaun wrote:
I was reading specs on hard drive, specifically data transfer rates and it looks like they're much lower than even the SATA II maximum data transfer rates, so why did they come out with SATA III? ... or have I read something wrong? Don't confuse sustained rate with burst rate, particularly from cache. As someone else noted Intel just announced SATA-III SSD drives. I may buy one, I have the ports and the system would benefit from having the OS and a few things on really fast media. |
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SATA III - is it going to immprove anything?
Per Bill Davidsen:
Intel just announced SATA-III SSD drives. I may buy one, I have the ports and the system would benefit from having the OS and a few things on really fast media. I rebuilt my system around an 80-gig SSD drive some weeks ago. Can't put a number on it, but the subjective improvement in speed/response is very noticeable.... sometimes seemingly almost back the old 486/character-based days. -- PeteCresswell |
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