USB vs SATA II transfer rate. If you look at simple stats on buffer to platter transfer rates on hard drives, a typical rate is 780Mbs, and for USB its 480Mbs. I'm not convinced this reflects real world performance. Lets say you have an external SATA II...

SATA II is the Maximum BURST rate for data transfers to and from the disk platters, and definitely NOT the long-term average transfer rate through the entire system. In fact, typical real average speeds for SATA II are not much different from what can be done...

SATA transfer rate and the NCQ feature are independently implemented by the manufacturer of the device. There are hard drives out there that implement 150MB/sec transfer rates but have NCQ (Western Digital Raptors), and there are drives that implement 300MB/...

reading data off the platters, so RPM is the key. Neither ATAPI (EIDE) nor SATA transfer data anywhere near their max ratings because of this. Eventually the BIOS dudes will make it easy to put half a dozen SATA drives on a single motherboard. SATA...

to a Raid system vs SATA and/or SCSI? I'm not very interested in going scsi again and SATA is looking pretty sweet (especially 10k rpm drives, although they're only at 36gb), so I guess the real question is the differences between a Raid setup and SATA. It...

to be someone whose applications do a lot of bulk I/O. A lot of people suggest otherwise because they look at transfer rate alone, and don't realize that there's more to it then simply that. I agree that SSDs are better than velociraptors, but they are also...

External hard transfer rate inconsistency. I have two external hard drives connected to my system via USB. One is a 250 Gb I/O Magic and the other a 80 Gb Western Digital. I use the 250 Gb to backup my profile and its always been smooth sailing with transfers...

I have read that SATA drives have faster transfer rate>> compared to IDE. No? >> No. No drive currently in existence can sustain a transfer rate greater > than 100 Mb/sec. Anything above ATA/100 with a single drive is pure hype. > The limit is now,...

advise! 50-100 concurrent users is SAS/SCSI territory. You're going to have a decent amount of concurrent requests, and the SAS/SCSI drives have much higher IOPs than SATA. Sequential transfer rate doesn't matter much here, so RAID 10 doesn't buy you anything....

drive work with a SATA controller. I plugged it into my Asus A8V Deluxe MB and not only is the drive not recognized but it gives me a failure. I thought that the SATA II interface would have been backwards compatible with the slower transfer rate of the SATA....