SATA hard disk? PATA hard disk? What are these?

[Firefox]

hehe.. USB2.0 is suppose to be faster than Firewire... by the way, if you Mac on USB 1.1 or 2.0? I'm not that familiar with Mac.. If on USB 1.1, plugging a USB 2.0 device, the transfer is still on 1.1

Anyway.. I find that USB speed tends to fluctuate, so can be quite slow at times.. Firewire is more consistent.

USB 2.0 is only theoretically faster than IEEE-1394. But Firewire's still faster due to the 1394 controller rather than using system resources.

 

[anka]

my usb2 external does 9 mins. for 12 gb

 

[quekky]

cannot be that slow, mine does around 10mins too

 

[quekky]

There are several brands of RAID cards out there. 3Ware is one of the popular ones.. 2 Ports SATA RAID cost around S$270, 4 ports around $500 plus, and 8 ports around $1000....
Naturally there are cheaper brands out there, some are not as efficient, some are pretty good.

so ex?

how's the cards from promise technology? cheaper compared to 3ware and they offer raid 6

 

[anka]

talking about raids.. i have not been able to achieve greater than 120Mb/s for my 4 disk 500Gb Raid 5. via PCI-X. max i had was only 100-110. still wondering why.

 

[Firefox]

talking about raids.. i have not been able to achieve greater than 120Mb/s for my 4 disk 500Gb Raid 5. via PCI-X. max i had was only 100-110. still wondering why.

Because you're using RAID 5.

 

[Ashleyy]

USB 2.0 is only theoretically faster than IEEE-1394. But Firewire's still faster due to the 1394 controller rather than using system resources.

Yeah.. theoretically.. but it does run faster than Firewire =P at least most I know some systems do..

Now, talking about theortically, the 56K dial up modem is a better example.. I never ever manage to find anyone connecting and transfering at that speed.. despite whatever the so call connection speed stated.. :bsmilie:

 

[Ashleyy]

so ex?

how's the cards from promise technology? cheaper compared to 3ware and they offer raid 6

A lot cheaper and doesn't run as effectively the last I checked.. not sure about nowadays.. perhaps they have improved?? try asking in computer forums better.. ;p

 

[Ashleyy]

talking about raids.. i have not been able to achieve greater than 120Mb/s for my 4 disk 500Gb Raid 5. via PCI-X. max i had was only 100-110. still wondering why.

think no further.. juz convert them to raid 10 :bsmilie:
it should be faster this way! but prepare to have lesser capacity. ;p

 

[saraluna]

Yeah.. theoretically.. but it does run faster than Firewire =P at least most I know some systems do..

Now, talking about theortically, the 56K dial up modem is a better example.. I never ever manage to find anyone connecting and transfering at that speed.. despite whatever the so call connection speed stated.. :bsmilie:

all this r done up in a lab.
and this is the max that they can go.
it can be done but not at home only.

and yea i second that firewire is faster for sure
lot more faster

 

[Ola]

Firewire is faster because it has it own "CPU" to manage the data transfer. It does not require the system CPU resource.
USB require the system CPU to manage the data transfer so if you are transferring data and using the system, it will affect your data transfer rate.