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| 352510 | 2005-05-06 00:43:00 | Hi Guys, I was wondering, if I put my 120GB IDE hard drive, on my old server, which runs at say... ATA66-100MHz (???) (ATA66/ATA100) (300Mhz Celeron) am I going to see any speed decrease over a 10/100mbs lan than if I had it on a new machine running ATA133? Cheers Hamstar |
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| 352511 | 2005-05-06 01:15:00 | Not really. The best way to increase server speed is to have enough ram (1 GB) to cache frequently accessed files. | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 352512 | 2005-05-06 02:57:00 | That 120GB drive's peak transfer rate isn't enough to saturate a 100MB/s bus, let alone a 133MB/s bus. Some of the fastest ATA drives might only reach 70MB/s. It's a similiar situation with SATA. People go "ooh sata drives are faster cos they run at 150MB/s" but in reality their drive isn't even using half of the available bandwidth of the bus. Good article (www.anandtech.com) to read from start to finish. :) |
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| 352513 | 2005-05-06 12:11:00 | yeah thats wat i heard, 70mb/s... | hamstar (4) | ||
| 352514 | 2005-05-06 12:14:00 | so the question, why so much extra space to move... oh, they can do 150mb/s in short bursts can't they? | hamstar (4) | ||
| 352515 | 2005-05-06 12:37:00 | so the question, why so much extra space to move... oh, they can do 150mb/s in short bursts can't they? Seems around 70 MB/s for that too. A 74 GB Raptor might be more. 150 MB/s has a use in a RAID setup. |
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