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Migrating to SATA... what is a superb SATA controller that can milk the SATA thruput?
I do not know enough about SATA controllers. My motherboard does not have a SATA controller, so I want to add a PCI SATA controler to it. There are all sorts of the out there and I spent too much time reading this and that trying to figure out a reliable PCI to SATA controller... Any well founded recommendation from someone with experience gets the prize!
here is a site that compares 4 of the latest SATA cards..
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=78710
http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rlid=78710
no matter how good a SATA Card you get, you'll never achieve anything over 133MB throughput over the PCI bus. Keep in mind this PCI bus is also shared. If you have a gigabit ethernet controller, sound card...or any other PCI device, you can start subtracting bandwidth. If you get two Western Digital Raptors in a RAID-0 configuration...you will saturate your PCI bus.
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So what is the solution to getting higher thruput? Do I go FireWire? Is there something like SATA to FireWire?
Dennis Kean
Dennis Kean
Getting a motherboard with onboard native SATA Controllers would be a good start.
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And then...? Also, what about Asus? I seem to have some good luck with Asus...
Dennis Kean
Dennis Kean
I believe that onboard SATA runs on its own bus (independent of the PCI bus). I have seen this before in Gigabit Ethernet cards.
Onboard would be the best thing unless you have PCI-64 bit.. Which i highly doubt.
Onboard would be the best thing unless you have PCI-64 bit.. Which i highly doubt.
What chip do you have?
Athlon? Athlon 64? Athlon FX? Pentium 4? Pentium 4 E?
Athlon? Athlon 64? Athlon FX? Pentium 4? Pentium 4 E?
http://www.motherboards.org/ranking/motherboard-rank.html
lists the best rated motehrboards seperated by the type of CPU they use.
lists the best rated motehrboards seperated by the type of CPU they use.
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Currently I'm using a Pentium 4! But I am willing to switch to Athelon 64, if there is hope there...
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He already has a Pentium 4, that board is not compatible
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Currently I'm using a Pentium 4! But I am willing to switch to Athelon 64, if there is hope there...
I was give him a link for a good Athlon 64 board... since he wants to switch to AMD.
Currently I'm using a Pentium 4! But I am willing to switch to Athelon 64, if there is hope there...
I was give him a link for a good Athlon 64 board... since he wants to switch to AMD.
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I heard about the hyperthreading being better than Intel's hyperthreading, though AMD seems to call it by another name and suppsedly uses some equivalent of 800+Mhz on the Front end Buss...
You mean hypertransport I'm guessing...either way this is turning into a different topic. Whether you go with intel or amd, getting a board with onboard sata support is always a plus.
Again different topic, but Hyper Transport is just a speratte bus for the memory controler, while Hyper Threading is intels psudo-dual core CPU.
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Thanxs for your help Guys!
I personally like the Promise 20378 RAID. I have a 10K rpm 36gb Raptor and it screams! But again limited by the PCI bus. At the present time, PCIe (Pci Express) is not much faster then standard PCI either.