[G4] SATA drive

[James Pacyga]

Well just for reference:

I have an AGP 500.  I have two 7200rpm WD 80Gb on the original IDE and 
a Sonnet SATA PCI with a Maxtor 7200rpm 200Gb.  Here is what XBench 
says performance-wise:

SATA:
	Disk Test	120.33	
		Sequential	114.01	
			Uncached Write	125.59	52.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	125.73	51.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	92.32	14.62 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	119.97	48.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	127.39	
			Uncached Write	145.19	2.18 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	175.48	39.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	100.21	0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	113.19	23.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]

IDE:
	Disk Test	75.65	
		Sequential	64.92	
			Uncached Write	88.30	36.81 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	87.30	35.75 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	68.13	10.78 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	41.40	16.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	90.63	
			Uncached Write	94.55	1.42 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	84.57	19.07 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	90.46	0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	93.62	19.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]


On Jun 20, 2005, at 7:47 AM, Peter wrote:

> At 09:50 -0400 20/6/05, Steve Goldstein wrote:
>> One more thing: by the time you pay for a SATA PCI card and cable, 
>> you are likely to be shelling out almost enough cash to buy a new 
>> 80-120 GB IDE drive.  As I recall, the PCI SATA cards cost about 
>> $50--unless the price has come way down.
>
> Thanks for all the quick and informative replies. Since I do NOT need 
> the SATA drive I then see no point in going to the unnecessary 
> expense...
>
> Again, thanks for all the replies.
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