Serial ATA hard drive question...

[Folkert Rienstra]

So what is the advantage of SATA?

http://www.serialata.org/faqs.html

 

[Atici72]

There is no performance advantage of SATA over PATA, unless you

consider that some SATA HDs run 10K RPM while the fastest PATA HDs
are 7.2K RPM.

I haven't seen any serial hard drive other than "Enterprise serial ATA" by
Western Digital with 36.7GB running at 10K RPM.

As far as I know, it is the only one running at 10K RPM. The downside of this
serial ATA hard drive is that it only offers 36.7GB which is not very appealing
for many consumers.

Does anybody know any other serial ATA hard drive running at 10K RPM larger
than 36.7GB?

 

[chrisv]

When you say "you guys", does that mean that others have replied?
I'm having an obvious newsgroup problem and need to provide my isp an error
case, thanks.

Clueless.

 

[Tom]

Clueless.

My isp owns the news server I am using and it's not pulling down the entire
thread.
Is there something about this you cannot comprehend?
Probably most things you can't.

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[chrisv]

My isp owns the news server I am using and it's not pulling down the entire
thread.
Is there something about this you cannot comprehend?
Probably most things you can't.

Tom, you didn't top post! I'm so proud of you... 8)

 

[nuke]

I wonder if the

performance of this new serial ATA hard drive is really significant. Has
anybody had any experience?

Thanks in advance...

It's about the same speedwise. That 1.5 giga*bits* per second works out to
about the same as 150 megabytes/second. A bit faster than ATA today.

The biggest improvement is physical - the cable is smaller, allows for longer
lengths, doesn't require master/slave jumpers and all that stuff. It's easier
to design and manufacture systems around it.

In terms of speed, you aren't likely to notice a whole lot on benchmarks. You
may see some improvment in CPU load, since the controller registers are local
in the bus on the machine, rather than on the drive. This might translate into
some improvement in dispatch time per command and likewise improve the number
of transactions/second your system can do, especially in little chunks of say,
16k at a time.

But that's all a maybe, depending on how well the SATA controller is
implemented in your mlb.