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typhoon43
06-07-2005, 01:16 PM
Just sold my trusty 36gig Raptor and am now in the market for a new Boot Drive. I have a 300Gig/167MB cache storage drive already. For flat out speed in gaming/photoshop, should I just go 74Gig Raptor, or would doing a large SATA-II/7200RPM/high cache drive do pretty much just as fine? Just trying to see if all the extra money for the Raptor's speed is worth it with the new SATA-II drives showing up.

Thx... I need CS to haul balls first and foremost.
hulksterjoe
06-07-2005, 02:03 PM
The sata II is a bigger pipe but will your mobo allow you to enjoy it..

its kinda like having a usb 2 device and a usb 1 mobo
typhoon43
06-07-2005, 02:57 PM
Mobo is NF4 chipset and supports SATA-II
Vertigo Acid
06-07-2005, 06:10 PM
The sata II is a bigger pipe but will your mobo allow you to enjoy it..

its kinda like having a usb 2 device and a usb 1 mobo However, the extra bandwidth is not usable right now; no SATA drives even burst to 150Mb/s. The importance of SATA II is that is fully supports hotswaping and NCQ, and that if you are getting a SATA II drive, you know you are getting a current generation drive
trader869
06-07-2005, 09:36 PM
However, the extra bandwidth is not usable right now; no SATA drives even burst to 150Mb/s. The importance of SATA II is that is fully supports hotswaping and NCQ, and that if you are getting a SATA II drive, you know you are getting a current generation drive


it looks as thought the bandwidth IS usable under certain circumstances.....

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/hard%5Fdrives/hitachi/T7K250/p3.htm

those in a RAID setup had a burst to 349MB/s. not everyones going to agree about this subject. but its the way to go seeing as how technology is advancing in that direction.
bandit390
06-07-2005, 09:55 PM
But how much does burst really matter?

I personally was getting higher average read than their 2 hitachis in raid 0 with 2 raptors in raid 0 and 2 maxtor diamond 10 in raid 0.
defakto
06-08-2005, 07:44 AM
SATA 2 also allows for port multiplexors so you can have more than one harddrive on the sata channel, which may make that higher pipe size much more usable.