"Grouper" first look

[MaxT]

eva, those are raid results though Even with 4 drives you are not limited to 150MB per sec with SATA, it's a limit per each individual channel (and the bus the controller is on).

As far as CPU utilization goes, I honestly don't know if SATA2 is supposed to be better (raid or not) by design. My guess it's all about the efficiency of the design and the implementation of the controller (be it SATA or SATA2), shouldn't really be any differences between those two. But i'm just guessing here.

Oh, and those Hitachi drives rock!