Sata and IDE - whats the difference?!

[Joe]

SATA II will help a lot when we start using flash memory hard drives... Only benefit SATA II will bring to the table with HD's is if manufacturers start making decently priced SOHO 15,000 RPM hd's.

flsash mem hdds no way too slow and a 10000 r/w duty cycle they die so quickly - put ur win swap file on a flash disk watch ur comp slow and die; future is holo storage <actually a few years ago read bout nu storage like holo but usin a crystalline square was very fast but unstable and too easily damaged

 

[FragTek]

flsash mem hdds no way too slow and a 10000 r/w duty cycle they die so quickly - put ur win swap file on a flash disk watch ur comp slow and die; future is holo storage <actually a few years ago read bout nu storage like holo but usin a crystalline square was very fast but unstable and too easily damaged

Flash mem hard drives are the future....

 

[Joe]

Flash mem hard drives are the future....

for 3 weeks lol .. soz i doubt it cost per gb is too High r/w speed is barley 10Mb/s (on fastest drives) and they die too quickly

 

[FragTek]

for 3 weeks lol .. soz i doubt it cost per gb is too High r/w speed is barley 10Mb/s (on fastest drives) and they die too quickly

We'll see

 

[NickS]

I think, that they will bring SDRAM back and use them for mass storage as they're so damn cheap. SDRAM, say 4GB of it, would fkin MURDER the FASTEST AVAILABLE hdd in RAID.

 

[Joe]

We'll see

if they fix a lotta probs then hopefully (acces times on solid state are sweeeettttttt. but its muh cheaper to use magnetic disks (but give spansion etc time they may produce summit wit good duty cycles / 1 nano transistors then well all b quite happy -- remember ther is a limit to the amount of dadta u can store per cm squared or magnetic disk and we are fast approaching it -- its called areal denstity and the affects of the Superparamagnetic effect)

 

[NickS]

I bet. and we cant shove like 5 platters in a reg. sized hdd. cdrom-sized HDD's! YEY LOL

 

[RollerCam540]

Something to keep in mind. ATA133 and SATA150 are measuring the drives burst rate. Most drives, if not all drives, do not perform anywhere near as fast as their burst rate. Normal drives transfer 35-45MBps. Even the fastest raptor isn't that big of an improvement over 7,200RPM drives. RAID0 is useless, you will never see speed improvements with it (Don't believe me, check storagereview.com, they are the HD experts). That's why RAID1 (for back up) and 7,200 drives are your best bet.

 

[NickS]

Yep. My record burst rate is 111MB on my Seagate now. Average is ~48MBps

 

[FragTek]

Something to keep in mind. ATA133 and SATA150 are measuring the drives burst rate. Most drives, if not all drives, do not perform anywhere near as fast as their burst rate. Normal drives transfer 35-45MBps. Even the fastest raptor isn't that big of an improvement over 7,200RPM drives. RAID0 is useless, you will never see speed improvements with it (Don't believe me, check storagereview.com, they are the HD experts). That's why RAID1 (for back up) and 7,200 drives are your best bet.

There is a significant improvement in large file transfer / copy time to other partitions on RAID 0 arrays...

 

[Dav0s]

i like the sdram idea, it will eventually be the future (but mroe likely ddr) but when it becomes much cheaper and not for many years yet.

 

[ionicle_old]

nethin aslong as it is fast!!!!!!!! i'm not that bothered

 

[jm7162]

hmmm... i must get me a sata hdd