On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:30 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > slightly slower transfer rate but you wouldnt notice till you use it > heavily (sata is 150 mbps i think while pata is 100 or 133 mbps typically) > > http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,115629,00.asp has a basic > howto from where you can dig deeper
The current crop of SATA drives give transfers rates of about 50~60mbps while the IDE's give 30~40mbps This is much within the limit of PCI bus at 133mbps. The buffered rate on SATA approach those of SCSI disks at 800~1000mbps (of course bump up memory and this can shoot even higher) So for the moment putting in a PCI SATA card is workable solution. OTOH Is the motherboard also not working with PCI bus? Unless the embedded SATA controllers are on some other bus there would be no difference with without PCI card. Maybe some hardware GURU can throw ROSHINI on the subject. Good to learn. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
