SATA2 performance boost? - [H]ard|Forum

**CorpX** · #1 12-31-2006, 11:30 PM

I'm getting a "drive index" of 59MB/sec with my sata 2 drive running on a sata1 mobo. (sisoft sandra)

By going to a mobo, I shouldnt expect any performance boost, right?

**tuskenraider** · #2 01-01-2007, 05:46 AM

Nope.

**unhappy_mage** · #3 01-01-2007, 12:06 PM

SiSoft's disk benchmarking tools are notoriously inaccurate and non-repeatable.

**CorpX** · #4 01-01-2007, 04:59 PM

hdtach gives me similiar results (with sata being ~10-15% faster).

that said, make sata the boot drive or make sata the drive with virtual mem?

**mdameron** · #5 01-01-2007, 05:49 PM

I had an interesting experience in this thread.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1139233

Note that there were no real world differences between my two setups. My results that I posted are from

2 WD SATA II 80gb HD's in RAID 0 on a SATA 1 mobo with 16k stripe

and

Same hard drives in RAID 0 on SATA 2 mobo with 64k stripe.

Similar average read and access, 68% increase in burst though.

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