On 6/4/07, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I get around 50MB/sec or so with about 2G file, so we're in the same ballpark. In round numbers, this is 1/3 the theoretical throughput of a SATA-150 or 1/6 that of SATA-300. Now, I *am* curious on what the bottlenecks are. 50MB/sec isn't a whole lot different that what I'd expect out of a modern PATA drive.
I'm getting 50-55Mbyte/s as well, on an ICH7-equipped board and SATA-150 hard drive. Seems to fall within expectations. The maximum theoretical interface speed isn't the same as what you get from the device connected to it, unfortunately. It's pretty fast still considering the price of the hardware, and if you want more, use RAID.
So, noting the better cabling and the wide availability of on-board RAID, it sure looks to me like there is no compelling argument to be made for SATA in non-RAIDed environments. I'm guessing the drives are the same ones as their PATA counterparts, just with different interface electronics, so we're not going to see SCSI-like reliability and/or performance under load.
Not entirely correct. SATA is hot-swappable, and you can get drives with command queuing for improved performance. No master/slave jumper fiddling either, which is nice. It's a technology not to be spat at, basically, and it's much cheaper than SCSI. -- Juha http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
