Hitachi's SATA-II Drive Tested

Ghost Rider writes "They didn't make much noise about it, but Hardcoreware.net have what looks to be one of first reviews of a SATA-II drive. They Compared the T7K250 from Hitachi to the latest drives from other manufacturers, including Seagate, Maxtor, and Western Digital's Raptor. They performed the tests on the SATA-II capable PDC20579 controller from Promise. It ended up in the middle of the pack in this review, so I'm not sure how much a difference SATA-II is going to make."

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SATA is just fine for me

[__aaitqo8496]

I'm happy just not having big clunky wires. Most PATA desvices did away with Master/Slave settings with the introduction of Cable Select. Since ATA devices can never really max out the theoretical bandwith of the cables, speed becomes a moot point. For now, I like the smaller cables and the fact that my hard drives no longer fight with my optical drives for space on limited cables. SATA II be damned, I'm happy with it's vanilla father.

Poor review, IMO.

[SunFan]

The disk busses are all faster than an indivual drive, now, but that didn't stop the authors of the review from hooking up a single drive to do their tests.

Seriously, folks, the only way your're going to saturate something like a Ultra320 SCSI bus is to use RAID, unless the drives start coming with rediculous cache sizes.

Re:Poor review, IMO.

[SunFan]

pop in a 512MB ram chip? that would be sweet!

Higher-end RAID controllers have RAM on them, so perhaps a "trickle-down" effect could lead to more cache on individual drives. I agree that would be pretty neat, especially on UNIX servers where physical RAM is already used up for other things blocking the filesystem cache.