SATA drive ?

[Vu Pham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Hipp
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:11 AM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: SATA drive ?
> 
> Vu Pham wrote:
>   > How about the hard drive ? I guess the SATA is good 
> enough. Which SATA drive
> > is a fast one now ?
> 
> SATA is definitely the way of the future. But, at present, 
> unless you go 
> for at least a 10,000 RPM drive it is a waste of money. Most 7200 RPM 
> drives only have data transfer rates of about 30-40MB/sec - barely 
> enough to fully utilize an ATA-33, much less an ATA 100 or 
> SATA 150. So 
> don't expect it to speed things up noticably. (It does use 
> somewhat less 
> CPU to obtain the given speed, but the extent to which this 
> matters on a 
> very fast CPU is debatable.)
> 
> Also beware that a lot of the SATA drives and controllers are really 
> just IDE stuff with a SATA converter chip in front and they 
> are actually 
> somewhat slower even than IDE (because of the conversion step).
> 
> The cabling for SATA is sure a lot nicer.


Thanks, Mike. I checked on Tomshardware site they have an interersting
article about 10K SATA.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/storage/20030501/index.html

The article is dated on 5/2003. I wonder if Raptor is still one of the
fastest ones ? Any faster newcomer ?

Vu