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SATA II ???????

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cthunder

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Will current motherboards be able to gain the full benefits of SATA II (300Mb) with the use of an adapter card? Or will it only be worth getting if one gets an PCI express based motherboard?
 
Hard drives cant even come close to utilizing SATA I, let alone II, so i would think PCI would be fine.

Hell you could put a Raptor on ATA-66 and itd barely slow down.
 
Ok..

So is it the 10000 RPMs that will make the Raptor work so well, even at the 66? Will the PCI be finally able to gain all the bandwidth that its meant to?
 
You have some confusion with your terms.

The rotational speed of the drive has no direct relation on its ATA rating.

The ATA rating is only slightly affected by the PCI bus speed of the system

You might want to check out storagereview.com for their reference guides and reviews
to understand the purpose in having certain interfaces and certain drives.
 
Without pci express, a sata 2 card would be useless. Even sata is 150MB/s which is higher than PCI's 133MB/s. No matter though. But don't worry. At current growth rates, it will take 4 years before consumer hard drives are able to attain 150MB/s throughput.
 
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