Never judge a drive by it's interface. The average IDE *and* SATA drives have a sustained throughput of 40 to 60MB. The specs though state what the interface is capable of. Only in a striped RAID array will you get close to spec on read speeds.
--- LinuxRocks! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well... I guess i'll deal with it in the morning. so far, im > totally > unimpressed with SATA. my maxtor 160 GB IDE (on an ata100 > controller) is > faster than my brand new 200gb SATA 150. I saw something about > sata II > being 300MB/s, if i could see that kind of performance > difference, then > sata might be worth the trouble, but then, i dont know if i > need > faster... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
