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13th January 2005, 02:05 | #1 |
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| sata 2 & nforce3 My original plan was to match a nforce3 board to my agp x800xt in the near future, but the news that sataII is around the corner makes me hold back http://techreport.com/etc/2005q1/ces/index.x?pg=4 (hitachi for example on the lower half of the page) given that nforce4 supports ncq/sata2, and there is no current solution available to the agp side of the market, you can suspect that nvidia will release an updated version of the nforce3 mcp ( -> any news about that?) since i'm just jabbering on and on, i'm just going to put down the golden question: what will sata2 bring us & is it worth to postpone an upgrade? (dont kill me if some guru already made the above clear in a column ) |
13th January 2005, 09:14 | #2 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| if hard disk can not saturate SATA1 or ATA, how will they benefit from SATA2 ? Native Command Queuing also does not bring a large improvement for desktop users; so in the end.. well, as long as HD don't increase their max. transfer rates, I see no point in waiting or needing a faster SATA
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Or perhaps it isn't. At any rate, it still shouldn't let you change or hold your purchase decision. Even if nvidia implements SATA 2 in a new chip it likely wouldn't support those RAID implementations anyway. The bottleneck will still be the disk technology used instead of the storage controller technology. I didn't read the article provided but tell me why the disk in the picture is a PATA disk? | |
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