SATA

[Garritos]

Aften buying a SATA harddrive to use with my new system I realized that my board dosent support it. I am looking at cheap options to hook it up to my system. I have a qusetion about the two options. I am looking at a PCI to SATA controller card or I'll use an IDE to SATA adapter. Will I be able to reach 150Mbs with a PCI card or should I just go with the 133Mbs of my IDE? Which option will give me the fastest transfer rates?

 

[HammerBot]

In either case you are limited to the speed of the drive: 40-50 MB/s. I would prefer the PCI card.

BTW, don't write Mbs (Mega-bit-seconds) when you actually mean MB/s (Mega byte pr. second)

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[Crashman]

Hehe, there is no drive that transfers 150MB/s. The fastest SATA drives (WD Raptors) peak at around 101MB/s. So even an ATA100 interface would be fast enough, with an adapter. Still I'd prefer the PCI card.

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[Garritos]

Thanx alot fellers...seems I wasted my money in buying a SATA drive in the first place. I went with a PCI Silicon image controller featuring raid.