I have old athlon xp 2500 barton. i have eide WD 8mb cache drives.
I usally surf alot. A LOT OF BIT TORRENT and occational gaming.
I'm thinking of moving up to Intel E6600 or so.
I'm not familer with performance difference between EIDE VS SATA ( real world)
SATA 1.5 vs SATA 3.0
Sata vs Sata raid.
THANK YOU FOR YOU HELP.
2007-05-21 06:45:30 · 3 answers · asked by CHRIS10202 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
SATA 1.5 give a theoretical 150 Mb/s throughput.
SATA 3.0 gives 300 Mb/s.
Is data transfer speed important to you?
RAID comes in different flavors:
RAID 0 stripes the data across multiple drives. Faster access, doubles throughput, if either hard drive fails all your data is hosed. storage capacity = drive size * # drives
RAID 1 mirrors the data across multiple drives. Data speed and access time is the same as normal, but if a hard drive fails the backup is right there and totally current. Storage capacity = drive size / 2 (you need an even number of drives)
RAID 5 needs at least 3 drives. It does a combination of mirroring and striping such that you get faster access times and redundancy. Storage capacity = drive size * # of drives -1.
RAID 5 IMHO is the best option, but most cheap controllers do not support it.
2007-05-21 07:12:55 · answer #1 · answered by Simon T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you like to run the drives as JBOD or purely raid the two X160s as you won't be able to raid mis matched drives so the 5 hundred heavily isn't known RAID 0 think of one hundred % loss of archives in force failure evaluate raid a million or 0+a million, you may no longer raid ide to sata
2016-11-25 22:09:37 · answer #2 · answered by declue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It helps quite a bit for installing and then loading large programs. Normal internet surfing and everyday tasks like word processing etc you wont notice much of a difference.
2007-05-21 06:57:40 · answer #3 · answered by Eric A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋