-- On Fri, 9/18/09, Mike <mike.dogho...@googlemail.com> wrote: > So in my fw800, a drive connected to the > ata100 bus would > read/write faster than one connected via a pci card?
The fw800 only has 33MHz PCI slots but they are 64bit capable. That means that a 32bit PCI card would clock a maximum of 4 bytes every 30.3nS or 132MBytes/s. I guess that's fast enough for an ATA/100 drive, and about the same as a 1.5Gbits/s SATA drive. However, it will limit a newer 3Gbits/s SATA drive, unless you can find a 33MHz/64bit SATA PCI card, which I don't think anybody makes. On the other hand a pair of raid striped U160 SCSI drives attached to an ATTO UL3D 64bit PCI card could max out at 264MBytes/s and could be spinning at 15Krpm! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
