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Hitachi's SATA-II Drive Tested

Posted by timothy on from the vroom-vroom-the-middle-of-the-pack dept.

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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  1. Re:Poor review, IMO. by SunFan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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