On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Colin wrote: > SATA-2 calls for Native Command Queuing, if > both the disk and controller support it. This lets the drive perform > reads/writes not in the order received, but in the order that will get > them done the fastest. Preliminary tests with prototype technology show > NCQ to give a drastic performance boost.
My advice would be to not become a beta-tester for the earlier SATA-2 cards/chipsets. > SCSI will probably always be > faster, but NCQ will be giving IDE a nice shot of steroids in the near > future. SCSI disks are also better made, better quality, etc. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
