Promise SATA300 TX4 and ASUS P4PE mb. Other controller card recos?SATA300 too fast for this mb?

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At present, I have a Promise SATA150 TX2 controller card in my system
with an ASUS P4PE mb.

I am considering adding a SATA 300 PCI controller card for a SATA-300
drive I have acquired in order to use it to the max, if in fact, it
would operate that quickly (but at some time in the future it will
probably be in a system that will use it at its maximum capability). Or
is this foolish thinking because the bus won't be able to handle
anywhere near the 3 Gb/sec that SATA-II is supposed to be able to deliver?

Does anyone know of any issues with the Promise SATA300 TX4? Any
experience out there with the Promise or any other add-in card that does
or does not work with this mb?

Are there buses that can even handle 3 Gb/sec burst speeds?

Thanks
Ken K
 
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ken said:
At present, I have a Promise SATA150 TX2 controller card in my system
with an ASUS P4PE mb.
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I am considering adding a SATA 300 PCI controller card for a SATA-300
drive I have acquired in order to use it to the max, if in fact, it
would operate that quickly (but at some time in the future it will
probably be in a system that will use it at its maximum capability). Or
is this foolish thinking because the bus won't be able to handle
anywhere near the 3 Gb/sec that SATA-II is supposed to be able to deliver?
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SATA disks do not deliver 3Gb/sec. The bus can. But the disks
peak at around 640Mb/sec or lower, just like ordinary ATA disks.
You have fallen victim to some marketing lies....

Arno
 
Ken said:
At present, I have a Promise SATA150 TX2 controller card in my system
with an ASUS P4PE mb.

I am considering adding a SATA 300 PCI controller card for a SATA-
300 drive I have acquired in order to use it to the max, if in fact,
it would operate that quickly (but at some time in the future it will
probably be in a system that will use it at its maximum capability).
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Not very likely.
Or is this foolish thinking because the bus won't be able to handle any-
where near the 3 Gb/sec that SATA-II is supposed to be able to deliver?
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Right. And neither do the drives themselves.
Does anyone know of any issues with the Promise SATA300 TX4? Any
experience out there with the Promise or any other add-in card that does
or does not work with this mb?
Click to expand...
Are there buses that can even handle 3 Gb/sec burst speeds?
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66MHz-PCI, 64-bitPCI, PCI-X, PCIe, take your pick.
 
Arno Wagner said:
SATA disks do not deliver 3Gb/sec.
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The bus can.
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Nope, it can't either. That's just the clockrate is bits per second.
There is no easy conversion to Bytes per second. The data is burst
at 3Gb/s, along with all kind of command and protocol and serial
conversion bits.
But the disks peak at around 640Mb/sec or lower, just like ordinary ATA disks.
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Many disks today peak at higher than 64MB/s.
You have fallen victim to some marketing lies....
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Right, so learn from that and don't next fall victim to Babblebot Arnie
who pulls facts from his arse and sees conspiracies everywhere.
 
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