"Sheik - how would you think the Sata II 4 drives stripe would hold up against a UW320 15,000RPM 4 drive stripe set?"
NOt sure but you get much more space and its a lot cheaper to get a couple of 250 GIG SATA 300's
PS I see Western Digital have just anounced their SATA II drives with 16 MB cache !
Yes - they should also be nice! They supposed to be shipping now - but no online retailer has either the 250Gb Hitachi nor the WD Sata II...hopefully soon
sweet!
will the drive work if i hoocked it to my asus p4c800-e. it doesn't support sataII.
Yes it should. It ships setup as a normal SATA 150 drive. You have to manually enable SATA 300 by changing the firmware (from floppy using Hitachi Feature Tool).
Hopefully they will find a way to change this with a jumper in future. Having to pull out my floppy drive after about 5 years kind of sucked :rolleyes:
do any of you guys know if the non SLI DFI nforce4 board can use the features provided by these hards drives (e.g. Sata II,ncq,etc.)
Any word on gen 3 Raptors with SATAII and possibly 16meg caches? (or maybe even 15k rpm?!)
The Ultra yes. The Vanilla NF4 no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Playful_Buffalo
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html
so my ULTRA-D has SATA2 support ? :)
will i manage to get RAID from
SATA 1 hitachi 160gb + SATA 2 hitachi 160gb.....so damn hard to find HITACHI SATA 160GB :(
imagine 2 of these SATA 2 in RAID :woot:
So the Western Digital drives are now shipping - 16mb sounds nice - but the do not have native command queuing. As a guess would you guys think the Hitachi with NCQ and 8MB cache or the WD with 16mb cache and no NCQ would be faster?
techreports.com review of the Hitachi T7k250 wasn't too good for the drives in single mode...
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2...0/index.x?pg=1
There is no real world performance gain from using NCQ so the WD with 16MB cache.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeguava
Umm... actually it does create a fairly big performance increase in multitasking environments... Read the Anandtech articles.
I'd recommend the Maxline III, it has NCQ and a 16MB buffer but not full SATA2/300 support.
OMG, did you saw the upcoming WD 250GB? 16Megabytes of cache, SATAII 300MB/s, NCQ... Seems like a perfect HDD!
Has anyone found a comparison of all these next generation drives?
NCQ ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hombre
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23560Quote:
TO A CLASHING OF cymbals, Western Digital released S-ATA II specs and the advantages of II over one at the Three E conference in LA LA land the other week.
But, according to system integrators briefed by WD and who told us how the HDD firm tried to spin things, it's not really good enough to position S-ATA II as a consumer answer for people wanting Windows based gaming PCs.
WD splashed out on a PR offensive but system integrators the INQ asked said that the HDD firm isn't yet able to implement native command queuing as yet.
Obviously, command queuing ain't for single user, single application threaded PCs. The real market is for RAID and for servers.
According to the system integrators, they've already had samples of S-ATA II drives from Samsung and from Seagate which do have a full set of features.
Multitasking is therefore much as the folk who want S-ATA II for servers desire it to be. We'll investigate further as INQ hacks migrate Old Taipei-wards. ยต
That was a very disappointing article...I am thinking of going with 4 of the cheap 80GB 7k250 for now...