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meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi Dale, |
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> as I know, the hd hardware can't nearly as fast as the bus speed |
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> regardless whether it is 6GB/s or 3GB/s. |
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> Quickly doing the same as you on my harddisk gave: |
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> /dev/sda: |
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> Timing cached reads: 6726 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3364.06 MB/sec |
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> Timing buffered disk reads: 318 MB in 3.00 seconds = 105.93 MB/sec |
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> The speeds of 6 GB/s or 3GB/s are only reached, when reading data |
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> directly from the hd cache. |
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> I dont know, what motherboard you use. But the settings you describe |
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> seem to be identical to mine. |
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> Important is: |
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> In the BIOS go to the hd section and look, what the BIOS think the |
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> speed of your hd is (3 GB/s or 6GB/s). When found directly set you |
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> SATA chip to that speed. It is recommended to do so by the help of |
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> text of my BIOS. I have a 3GB/s disk. And yes, IDE is ok. |
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> Here you can find explanations about AHCI vs. IDE sata mode. |
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> http://www.techarp.com/showfreebog.aspx?lang=0&bogno=316 |
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> On my board (ASUS Crosshair IV Formula) it was said, that AHCI is |
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> slower than IDE, but (!) is not due to IDE vs. AHCI but to a |
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> limitation of the chip. |
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> Look at the benchmarks above: There no place to go faster than that. |
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> 3/6 GB/s on cach read are standard compliant and ~100 MB/s is the |
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> limitation of hardware normal people like you and me can pay for. |
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> Plug on the front: |
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> This seems to be E-Sata jack AND SHOULD BE CONNECTED INTERNALLY ONLY |
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> TO AN E-SATA (not SATA) JACK ON THE MOBO. |
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> In unmounted status: Yes it should be hotpluggable as USB. BUT dont |
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> connect the E-SATA jack of the case to a normal SATA jack on the |
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> board! |
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> E-SATA != SATA !!!! |
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> HTH |
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> mcc |
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Sounds like I am normal on speed. Still wonder why they call it |
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"advanced" tho. Hype maybe? ;-) |
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I noticed when I did some searching that the eSATA connectors have sort |
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of a L shape to them. All the SATA connectors have a L shape to them on |
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my mobo. |
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I think for safety's sake, I think I will shutdown first. The biggest |
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reason I was wondering is because it is on the front next to the USB |
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plugs too. Just made me wonder. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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