Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:26:45AM +0200, Dan H wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:41:38 + "Douglas A. Tutty" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In any event, if you're choosing between PATA and SATA, go with SATA > > Thanks everybody. This is an easy decicion, seeing that opinions don't > vary

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-28 Thread Dan H
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:41:38 + "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > In any event, if you're choosing between PATA and SATA, go with SATA [...] Thanks everybody. This is an easy decicion, seeing that opinions don't vary at all. One more question though: This mobo has 2 free

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:13:33AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The instantaneous peak throughput of the original > (four bytes wide, 33 MHz) PCI bus is 132 MB/sec. In real life > you're not going to see over 90. So a SATA-II controller > on a regular PCI card is bottlenecked at the mother

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Dan H wrote: >> Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two >> compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel suppo

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:30:53PM +, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > SATA-I gives 150 MB/s, SATA-II gives 300 MB/s, PATA 133 MB/s. > How does one measure the speeds of these drives? For the PATA drives, I used hdparm -tT /dev/hda to get the numbers. The sdparm utility does not seem to h

Re: SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:05:42PM +0200, Dan H wrote: > now I have this camcorder and want to dump/edit some family videos on > it, and before I know it my 160GB harddisk is full. So I need some > extra GB. > > Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two > compare in terms of

SATA vs PATA

2007-08-27 Thread Dan H
Hello, now I have this camcorder and want to dump/edit some family videos on it, and before I know it my 160GB harddisk is full. So I need some extra GB. Should I go Serial-ATA or good ol' Parallel-ATA? How do the two compare in terms of data throughput and Linux kernel support? Just went and