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Nov 7, 2007 | 08:21 PM

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Nov 7, 2007 | 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by popatim

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Originally Posted by Hans

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SATA at 150 MB/* is way past any hard drive'* transfer rate. With 4 drives in RAID 5, I got a peak transfer rate of 260MB/*.

you mean 26MB/*?

Good lord, I hope not.

Modern hardrives can get ~100MB/* individually.
Thou 260MB/* for a four drive raid 5 is pretty dang good!

Indeed. So you see, a 150 MB/* rating for a SATA hard drive is too high. It'* probably just that since a SATA 2.0 controller can do 3000 megabits per second (8 bits to 1 byte), it has lower latencies than the SATA 150 controller, which is 150MB/*. This is probably not necessary information, but it goes to show that a SATA II hard drive on a SATA II controller may be a split second quicker in seek time, which is already calculated in milliseconds.