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GrouchyAdmin · 08-31-2006, 04:32 PM

You guys are going too internerd.

Those numbers are BURST rates. No desktop HD is going to sustain enough to saturate a PCI bus. RAID 0 is also, pardon me, dumbtarded. You might shave a few ms access time off, but the moment you get one power hit, hello corruption!

SATA-1 is theoretical 150, SATA2 is 300. You'll never see that. The chipsets are cheap commodities, and most of the work is done on the CPU. SCSI is still very much a hardware solution.

If you want something that's not going to hiccup when you want to render video AND listen to MP3s at the same time, SATA can probably do it. SCSI, however, will let you check your email and post on GFY, too. ;)

08-31-2006, 04:32 PM
GrouchyAdmin Now choke yourself! Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 12,085	You guys are going too internerd. Those numbers are BURST rates. No desktop HD is going to sustain enough to saturate a PCI bus. RAID 0 is also, pardon me, dumbtarded. You might shave a few ms access time off, but the moment you get one power hit, hello corruption! SATA-1 is theoretical 150, SATA2 is 300. You'll never see that. The chipsets are cheap commodities, and most of the work is done on the CPU. SCSI is still very much a hardware solution. If you want something that's not going to hiccup when you want to render video AND listen to MP3s at the same time, SATA can probably do it. SCSI, however, will let you check your email and post on GFY, too. ;)