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SATA-II important for speed?

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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.
 
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
 
hulksterjoe said:
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
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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
 
Vertigo Acid said:
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
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it looks as thought the bandwidth IS usable under certain circumstances.....

http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/hard_drives/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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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