Going SATA II

[CraKaJaX]

What's the best SATA II drive on the market right now? and does it work just like regular SATA? Or is there drivers to install? How does it work? Does it use regular SATA connectors or are there 'SATA II' connectors? Thanks 😀

 

[phillyman36]

Crakajax this is what ive been trying to do research on myself. However when i talk to people they say there is no performance gain to Sata II. My Pata drives are ata 100 which means if i understand it right the max data to transfer is 100mb/s. If im using a Sata II the 300mb/s is the max i should at least get 200mb/s (ish). Doesnt that mean it should be noticably faster?

 

[shoRunner]

there will be no difference in 7200 rpm drives whether the interface is 150 MB/s, 300 MB/s....600MB/s. SATA and IDE drives will both perform the same.

 

[phillyman36]

Originally posted by: shoRunner
there will be no difference in 7200 rpm drives whether the interface is 150 MB/s, 300 MB/s....600MB/s. SATA and IDE drives will both perform the same.

Shorunner so what your saying is its the speed of the drive that counts not how many mb/s? I think im getting it sort of lol thanks

 

[Kenazo]

What he's saying is that those ATA drives might only be capable of say 100mb/s thus it really doesn't matter how much in excess of that you are.

That said, most SATA drives are faster than ATA/100 ones. Especially ones like the Seagate 7200.8's that use NCQ.

 

[shoRunner]

yes, basically if you want a faster drive it will have to spin faster, have more cache, better design, new tech, like ncq(which doesn't improve performance for 99% of home users) not just change how fast it can transfer data because thats not the bottleneck

 

[prochobo]

The type of interface makes no effing difference. ATA100 = SATAII. 100MB/s vs 300MB/s. No performance increase at all. Wanna know why? Because your hard drive can only read at probably a max of 30MB/s and it writes a little slower than that.

 

[MobiusPizza]

Originally posted by: prochobo
The type of interface makes no effing difference. ATA100 = SATAII. 100MB/s vs 300MB/s. No performance increase at all. Wanna know why? Because your hard drive can only read at probably a max of 30MB/s and it writes a little slower than that.

QFT

The max sustained transfer rate of the upfront newest driver barely hits 70MB/s
Regardless of ATA, SATA-I, SATA-II there would not be ANY DIFFERENCE
However having said that, because the upmost drives with greatest aerial density (higher aerial density = higher transfer speed) are the newest ones out in SATA department, SATA drives would perform better than ATA. Not because the interfact is faster, because the SATA drives are newer and hence faster.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: shoRunner
there will be no difference in 7200 rpm drives whether the interface is 150 MB/s, 300 MB/s....600MB/s. SATA and IDE drives will both perform the same.

Agree, and disagree. With some of the newer drives, the burst rate may exceed 150mbps - but this is just the burst rate anyways.

 

[wexsmith]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
What's the best SATA II drive on the market right now? and does it work just like regular SATA? Or is there drivers to install? How does it work? Does it use regular SATA connectors or are there 'SATA II' connectors? Thanks 😀

To answer the original post.

1. What's the best SATA II drive on the market right now?
There's no real 'best' SATA II drive. IBM, Samsung, Hitach and Western Digital are the only MFG's that I know of that are actually marketing SATA II drives. WD has a 16MB cache 250GB 7200RPM SATA/300 drive - WD2500KS. Hitachi has a 500GB 16MB 7200RPM SATA/300 drive - HDS725050KLA360. The rest of the drives out all have 8MB cache. If you do any sort of workstation activities it would be beneficial to find a drive that has NCQ, if your board or controller card support it.

2. Does it work like regular SATA?
Yes

3. How does it work?
Magic? I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want some detailed specifications on how a drive is built and actually operates?

4. Does it use regular SATA connectors or are there 'SATA II' connectors?
It uses the same 7-pin connector as SATA 1.