Bill
On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Bill's In th' House Connelly wrote:
I agree with checking out those sites ...
I have an 8500/180 (50MHz) with a Sonnet G4/450 and have a Sonnet Trio FW/USB/ATA card installed. The ATA is 133 and my ATA drives are Seagate ATA/100s. I only get 18.5MB R/W Quickbench performance testing ... under OS X 10.2.8.
Probably the 33MHz PCI bus? and the Trio is an overkill (for this machine, anyway)?
Bill
On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, at 11:23 PM, David Klaus wrote:
Charlie Reyes wrote: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?
My two sites for benchmarks are <http://www.barefeats.com/> and <http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/> both of which have SATA and Hard Drive information.
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