I'm considering getting a PCI IDE host adapter card (HighPoint Technologies Rocket133 Host Adapter). The short specs are:
Host side interface
32bit 33/66 MHz PCI
Device side interface
Ultra DMA/ATA133
The hard drive I want to use this with is the Western Digital WD1200JB. It states that it can do "Mode 5 Ultra ATA 100.0 MB/s ".
Here's my question: How fast are my PCI slots? Gigabyte says they're PCI 2.2 compliant... (what does this mean?) Is the PCI slot slower than 100 MB a second transfer rate? If so, will their be a "bottleneck" between the PCI card to motherboard?
How do you test the speed of a PCI slot?
Does anybody any other ideas on how I can add more IDE channels to my system? Should I be looking at a RAID (RocketRAID 404) card? I thought about going SCSI, but I don't have the finances for this.
The theoretic limit of PCI slot is 133 MB/sec but it is shared by all the device using PCI slot. The most likely bottleneck will be the hard drive itself.
The PCI bus runs at 33MHz and can handle 133MB/s. But the drive will almost never read/write at the speed. The actual speed will probably be around the 40-50MB/s.
That is also why the modern Serial ATA with 150MB/s bandwith is useless on the PCI bus (in speed that is... those small cable are very handy).
My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dims when I turn it on
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