sata drives

[sgopus]

I see that high capacity SATA drives are in low supply and expensive, I
can't imagine putting in a 3G drive for data, when there
are multiple low priced high capacity ATA drives, even if the mb supports
raid 0/1 with SATA.
I think I'll stick with ATA for awhile. till the new tech catches up.

[R. McCarty]

Expensive (>?) - a Seagate 250 Gigabyte, Perpendicular oriented drive
with a 16-Megabyte Cache is less than ~$100. On a SATA-II controller
you can achieve a sustained throughput of 125 Megabytes/Sec with an
access time of under 10.0 mS.
Some new motherboards have only a single PATA channel for Optical
drives until SATA DVD drives become the standard.
Other new motherboard/chipsets have dropped PATA completely.

"sgopus" > wrote in message
news:NMadnRuooqcfkX_ZnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@scnresearch. com...
>I see that high capacity SATA drives are in low supply and expensive, I
> can't imagine putting in a 3G drive for data, when there
> are multiple low priced high capacity ATA drives, even if the mb supports
> raid 0/1 with SATA.
> I think I'll stick with ATA for awhile. till the new tech catches up.
>
>

[sgopus]

interesting, I couldn't find anything but 3g sata drives on newegg.com,
guess I'll have to look around



"R. McCarty" > wrote in message
...
> Expensive (>?) - a Seagate 250 Gigabyte, Perpendicular oriented drive
> with a 16-Megabyte Cache is less than ~$100. On a SATA-II controller
> you can achieve a sustained throughput of 125 Megabytes/Sec with an
> access time of under 10.0 mS.
> Some new motherboards have only a single PATA channel for Optical
> drives until SATA DVD drives become the standard.
> Other new motherboard/chipsets have dropped PATA completely.
>
> "sgopus" > wrote in message
> news:NMadnRuooqcfkX_ZnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@scnresearch. com...
>>I see that high capacity SATA drives are in low supply and expensive, I
>> can't imagine putting in a 3G drive for data, when there
>> are multiple low priced high capacity ATA drives, even if the mb supports
>> raid 0/1 with SATA.
>> I think I'll stick with ATA for awhile. till the new tech catches up.
>>
>>
>
>

[Frank]

I have not heard of a 3G capacity drive. I think that you should
brush up on your reading/comprehension skills. What you
are seeing is SATA 3.0Gb/s, which is a transfer speed.

"sgopus" > wrote in message ...
> interesting, I couldn't find anything but 3g sata drives on newegg.com,
> guess I'll have to look around
>
>
>
> "R. McCarty" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Expensive (>?) - a Seagate 250 Gigabyte, Perpendicular oriented drive
>> with a 16-Megabyte Cache is less than ~$100. On a SATA-II controller
>> you can achieve a sustained throughput of 125 Megabytes/Sec with an
>> access time of under 10.0 mS.
>> Some new motherboards have only a single PATA channel for Optical
>> drives until SATA DVD drives become the standard.
>> Other new motherboard/chipsets have dropped PATA completely.
>>
>> "sgopus" > wrote in message
>> news:NMadnRuooqcfkX_ZnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@scnresearch. com...
>>>I see that high capacity SATA drives are in low supply and expensive, I
>>> can't imagine putting in a 3G drive for data, when there
>>> are multiple low priced high capacity ATA drives, even if the mb supports
>>> raid 0/1 with SATA.
>>> I think I'll stick with ATA for awhile. till the new tech catches up.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>