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On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote: |
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> Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a |
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> SATA hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive |
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> or will the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/ |
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> sec on my IDE drives. Would this setup be any faster? |
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If you want faster throughput then onboard controllers or PCI-express |
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(PCI-e) are the way to go. |
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I'm not sure how the bandwidth of regular old PCI compares to (i.e. |
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limits) that of an SATA harddrive, but you can come across PCI's |
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performance limitations if using a RAID array. PCI-express has |
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_signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently |
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that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network |
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card & that onboard gigbit network ports are faster. |
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I tend to think of PCI-X just as "long PCI" or only-a-bit-faster-than |
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PCI. It might be (say?) double the speed of short PCI, but it doesn't |
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match PCI-e's several-times (?) performance. PCI-X may be useful when |
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trying to get the best performance out of an older motherboard, or if |
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you're trying to save money by picking up an expensive hardware-RAID |
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card cheaper secondhand, but I would try to avoid investing too much |
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money in it until you've done the maths - a new motherboard / CPU / |
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RAM might even be cheaper & faster. |
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Stroller. |
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