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Is a Promise SATA150 (or other) controller worth getting over NF4 SATA?

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Polish3d

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In a thread about ram on a gaming server a few said that Raptor drives weren't really worth it unless you had a seperate SATA controller.... is there a substantial difference between the NF4 SATA controller and a seperate PCI controller?

In storage review's benchmark of the Raptor they use a Promise SATATX4 controller and their results show the Raptor besting ~ 1/2 -2/3rds of the SCSI drives... is this type of performance only going to happen w/ a seperate controller or is there little difference between this controller and the NF4 onboard?

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If you already have SATA, dont waste your monet on a seperate controller. There's a good chance that a seperate controller would be slower that the onboard SATA.

RoD
 
I thought the same... I wonder if the guys saying Raptor was only worth it w/ a seperate controller are just incorrect
 
If it was "raided" then they may have but two raptors together in RAID 0, which would have improved read/write speeds, but I dont think it has any effect on seek time .
 
rune said
"EDIT: Thirdly, according to my research, the Raptors only perform better when compould with a high quality SATA controller from Promise or LSI. When coupled with the standard MOBO controller, they aren't much more faster than a standard SATA drive. So I would just stick to a standard SATA drive and get more storage."

Is this completely wrong?

 
raptors in no raid and raptors in raid even with a card still and always will sux for the average pc users.
 
Originally posted by: Frackal
I thought the same... I wonder if the guys saying Raptor was only worth it w/ a seperate controller are just incorrect
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99% percent of the time they're wrong. The only time they're right is if you have a server motherboard with an onboard SATA controller connected to the PCI bus plus PCI-X slots and you use a seperate PCI-X SATA card. 🙂
 
If you get a Raptor, you will see an improvement over any other SATA hard drive. If you use a SATA controller on a PCI card it will be slower than a SATA connector on your mobo.
 
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