Mike wrote: > So, just to jump in and possibly confuse things more, a SATA drive, > connected via a pci card, would also be "strangled" by the limits of > the pci bus? So in my fw800, a drive connected to the ata100 bus would > read/write faster than one connected via a pci card? Assuming the same/ > similar drive (spindle speed/cache size) in both cases that is. > OR, (if I'm remembering right) would the fact that a sata drive can > read and write simultaneously outweigh the (possibly) slower bus > speed, or am I totally making this all up? > > > > On 18 Sep 2009, at 20:36, John Niven <[email protected]> wrote: > >> --- On Fri, 9/18/09, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> yes. Just pointing out the diff, so folx don't get >>> confused about >>> you adding stick bandwidth to the thread. >> So to sum up, the 100MHz system (and memory bus) bandwidth is NOT >> the limiting factor for a scsi disk connected via a PCI card, it is >> the PCI bus speed. >> >> This same limitation applies to all other pci connected disk systems.
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