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Asus SATA Dongle on a A7N8X Deluxe
I purchased two Asus SATA Dongles for use on a Asus A7N8X even though Asus
specifically states the dongle are for the P4PE, A7V8X, P4SDX and P4S8X motherboards using the Promise SATA Controller Chip. One of the dongles worked on the A7N8X and the other seem to be DOA, and was returned. Using an older IBM 120GXP 60Gig drive I ran SiSoft 2003 on the single drive while still connected to the primary IDE port on the A7N8X and received a score of 25,412. Same drive as a single on the SATA port produced a score of 23,177 I had originally intended to screw around and do a raid 0 on a pair of old IBM 120 GXP's, but I think I will wait for the hard drive companies to produce real SATA drives. |
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"JKay" wrote in message
... Using an older IBM 120GXP 60Gig drive I ran SiSoft 2003 on the single drive while still connected to the primary IDE port on the A7N8X and received a score of 25,412. Same drive as a single on the SATA port produced a score of 23,177 So ? SATA's advantages are not performance-related. I had originally intended to screw around and do a raid 0 on a pair of old IBM 120 GXP's, but I think I will wait for the hard drive companies to produce real SATA drives. Why ? SATA is better than IDE in every single possible way. |
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"JKay" wrote in message ... I purchased two Asus SATA Dongles for use on a Asus A7N8X even though Asus specifically states the dongle are for the P4PE, A7V8X, P4SDX and P4S8X motherboards using the Promise SATA Controller Chip. One of the dongles worked on the A7N8X and the other seem to be DOA, and was returned. Using an older IBM 120GXP 60Gig drive I ran SiSoft 2003 on the single drive while still connected to the primary IDE port on the A7N8X and received a score of 25,412. Same drive as a single on the SATA port produced a score of 23,177 I had originally intended to screw around and do a raid 0 on a pair of old IBM 120 GXP's, but I think I will wait for the hard drive companies to produce real SATA drives. This makes sense. The converter is not "native" SATA, so there should be a performance hit for the conversion. Companies already do have SATA drives out. Seagate, WD and Maxtor. ken k |
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This makes sense. The converter is not "native" SATA, so there should be
a performance hit for the conversion. Companies already do have SATA drives out. Seagate, WD and Maxtor. ken k Your right the lack of performance with the dongle conversion unit is reasonable. However, the alleged real SATA (UDMA 150) drives do not perform as well as say a PATA Western Digital 250 Gig UDMA 100 drive. I say alleged SATA, because it appears these early SATA drives are just hacked PATA drive, and thus a corresponding performance hit. |
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So ? SATA's advantages are not performance-related.
I had originally intended to screw around and do a raid 0 on a pair of old IBM 120 GXP's, but I think I will wait for the hard drive companies to produce real SATA drives. Why ? SATA is better than IDE in every single possible way. So name a few. Certainly performance at this point in time is not one of them if you are not using some type of raid configuration. |
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Seconded.
JKay, you need a better DRIVE for better performance. Forget about the interface used - IDE/SATA/SCSI is not relevent. Well, you just talked me into it. I order a Raptor. Should be here tomorrow afternoon. Going to try it as a single for now. |
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JKay wrote:
Seconded. JKay, you need a better DRIVE for better performance. Forget about the interface used - IDE/SATA/SCSI is not relevent. Well, you just talked me into it. I order a Raptor. Should be here tomorrow afternoon. Going to try it as a single for now. :-) Let us know what you think of it. Ben -- I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a string... |
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Nom ) wrote:
: "JKay" wrote in message : ... : So name a few. : Command Queuing. : Tagged Command Support. These are not unique to SATA. They are described in the latest ATA spec and therefore apply to all ATA type drives irrespective of interconnect technology. : Greater bus speed. Don't know exactly what you mean here (i.e. SATA isn't a bus) but ultimately whatever the interconnect they both terminate at either PCI or somewhere inside the Northbridge and are bottlenecked there. Dave |
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"JKay" wrote in message
... Seconded. JKay, you need a better DRIVE for better performance. Forget about the interface used - IDE/SATA/SCSI is not relevent. Well, you just talked me into it. I order a Raptor. Should be here tomorrow afternoon. Going to try it as a single for now. Sweet |
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FYI. looks like the raptor isn't as good as it should be. it does run cooler though. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1175844,00.asp ken k Ken K: I agree none of the SATA drives are very exciting at this point. The www.storagereview.com did a preview of this drive using the Promise and the Silicon Image SATA controllers. They gave the drive a buy recommendation, using the Promise controller. Unfortunately, the Asus A7N8X Deluxe m/b uses the Silicon Image controller chip. This is going in a game machine and really is just an excuse to pry the lid off and play down in the engine room. |
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