Rich said:...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.
Rich said:...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like?
Not individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've
only ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.
...say 6 brands from best to worse, what would the list look like? Not
individual boards, but overall brand ratings themselves. I've only
ever used Asus and Soyo boards but I'd be interested
in people's opinions.
VanShania said:I would also say get a motherboard with at least 6 sata ports, 8 if you can,
since sata optical drives will hopefully become more abundant
What advantage would SATA optical drives provide other than easier
cabling? (once its cabled-in, its not a problem, right?)
VanShania said:Well, thats like saying theres no difference between IDE 100/133 hard drives
and sata150/300 drives. But you get a huge boost in performance when you
have sata( even though the fastest sata hard drive only transfers at about
57mb/s(WD 400/500's)). Just have to make sure the optical drives have fast
access times. The Plextor PX-16SA is a sata optical drive but is rated
slower than the current 33mb\s optical drives because of this. But that will
change fast I hope.
Well, thats like saying theres no difference between IDE 100/133 hard drives
and sata150/300 drives.
But you get a huge boost in performance when you
have sata( even though the fastest sata hard drive only transfers at about
57mb/s(WD 400/500's)).
Just have to make sure the optical drives have fast
access times. The Plextor PX-16SA
is a sata optical drive but is rated
slower than the current 33mb\s optical drives because of this. But that will
change fast I hope.
VanShania said:Lets hope the PX-760 SA is faster than its IDE brother. The PX-760A IDE
version only has a transfer rate of 25mb/s and access times of 150ms, even
though it is rated Ultra ATA/66 standard.
Its not rated at ATA/66, it just connects at that speed. Sorta like a
SATA II drive connecting at 300 MBs but it only reads at 60 MBs.
So if this drive was converted to operate with a SATA II conntection, do
you think its speed would be much different?
IMHO, the only benefit of Plextor drives is that most of them (I'm not
sure of the whole line) have bigger cache.
VanShania said:Lets hope the PX-760 SA is faster than its IDE brother. The PX-760A IDE
version only has a transfer rate of 25mb/s and access times of 150ms, even
though it is rated Ultra ATA/66 standard.
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you 2 can stick to ide then and I'll move on to sata. Also Plextor isn't the
only one who will be making sata optical drives in the future. And newer
technology is almost always faster, even though transfer rates may remain
unchanged. Which is why sata hard drives provide a good performance boost
over IDE, especially the big drives like the Western digital 400 and 500gb
models. Even their 320 gigs were rated top of the class until the 400s came
along. And then add raid 0( I will use 4 drives for this), you have a
smoking system that is stable and reliable.
VanShania said:you 2 can stick to ide then and I'll move on to sata. Also Plextor isn't the
only one who will be making sata optical drives in the future. And newer
technology is almost always faster, even though transfer rates may remain
unchanged. Which is why sata hard drives provide a good performance boost
over IDE, especially the big drives like the Western digital 400 and 500gb
models. Even their 320 gigs were rated top of the class until the 400s came
along. And then add raid 0( I will use 4 drives for this), you have a
smoking system that is stable and reliable.
But that doesn't change the physics of spinning a DVD or CD. To get
better performance, the disk must spin faster. If the disk is forced to
spin faster than it is now, it will fly apart.
So how do you propose to improve performance with that barrier?
I haven't followed whatever it is you're discussing, but the answer to
this question is simple. More heads.