Anyone on the list have experience with these newer drives? What advantage(s) do they have over UltraATA-133 drives. OWC has a PCI controller card.
I'd like to know as well. Only thing is whether a PCI Mac's slower PCI bus can take advantage of one. My 9600/g4/450 has a Sonnet Tempo ATA66 card with Maxtor 30GB 7200rpm drive and it benchmarks at around 32MB/sec. read, well short of the theoretical 66MB/sec. max. I gather a SATA card and drive wouldn't fare much better due to the bottleneck.
Has anyone benchmarked a SATA card and drive in a PCI Mac?
-RPM
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