Is the 2nd generation Sata 2 in overall general performance faster than the WD Raptor?
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THERE PRETTY CLOSE ON SOME BENCHMARKS GO WITH ONE RAP ONE SATA RAID 1 IF U DONT GAME GO WITH ATHLON X2 GREAT CHIP I HAVE 4200 BUT THEY HAVE 3800 CLOSE TOO THE SAME PRICE AS YOUR 3700 AT NEWEGG.COM
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You can't "make" a hard drive an SATA2 drive.  It either was SATA2 when you bought it, or it wasn't.  You're talking about RAID 0, which can be done with either SATA1 or SATA2 drives.\n\nRAID will make a definite difference in throughput, but those weren't fast drives to begin with.  I'd recommend you spend $95 on a drive that's almost 3 times as big, and roughly 3x as fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140  Then, just use the Maxtor as either a spare drive, or as additionaly storage space.
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SATA is better because you dont need to bother with those bulky wide IDE cables. SATA drives also dont have jumpers and are much easier to work with.
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Makes no difference.\n\nThe only thing it affects is the price as 2*1gb would cost more.
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External drives are hugely slower than internal drives due to the interfaces they use. External drives using USB 1.1 have a transfer rate of 12Mbit/sec. USB 2.0 is 480Mbit/sec.\nInternal drives running Ultra ATA transfer at 1GB/s.\nInternal drives using SATA transfer at 1.5GB/s and SATA 2 at 3GB/s.\n\nSo obviously a huge difference.
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Serial ATA.  It has an actual data transfer rate of 1.2 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), or 150 megabytes per second.\n\nMuch better than the standard ATA parallel cables.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
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Speed is not a problem. No commercial hard drive can overload the PCI bus. Not even close (by a factor of 100 at least).\n\nHowever, SATA cards have a reputation for being painfully hard to install and almost impossible to work with if you don't already have windows running (so installing windows on one from the cd isn't easy at all). They are getting better, and people figured out how to make slipstream cds with drivers, but it's still harder with a card.
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Turions are faster.  clicks and pops are 100% driver issues since its rare to have IRQ conflicts now with PCI steering.
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No, RAID 1 only provides fault tolerance, not performance increases. Performance increases come from striping such as in RAID 3 or RAID 5.
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Nope:\nPATA 3 x ATA100 up to 6 Devices\nSATA 1.5 Gb/s 4\nSATA RAID RAID 0/1/0+1 Matrix RAID\nAdditional RAID Controller Promise PDC20378\n\n\nIf you do get a sataII check out the Western Digital Sata 3G with a 16MB buffer (320GB) It is almost as fast as my 10,000 RPM Raptor!
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I have observed this with azureus as well. But the difference what not that much - only a few MBs.
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Hard to say without knowing what you are using to control RAID.  Is it software raid controlled by OS?  Do you have a dedicated RAID controller?  How much memory on the RAID controller?\n\nGuessing you are using software RAID, I would say the reads and writes will be faster to 1 SCSI drive then to mirrored 7200 SATA drives.\n\nSee this article for comparison of the two:\nhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=41803&DisplayTab=Article
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I think this should help you better understand the issue\nhttp://www.techbuilder.org/recipes/59200981 \n\nAs a bonus to the article try to think about future: PATA (IDE) is the old technology and SATA is the new one. Which one you think will be there in 3 years? \nThe price is even between them at the moment or at least very similar. \nAs with anything in IT&C the limit is the price, so...go for what is newer, faster and, of course, better which in this case is SATA.\n\nEnjoy ;)
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Connection Type- EIDE, SATA 1.5, or SATA 3. Which do you have?\nSize- How much space you need to have?\nBuffer- How big is the memory buffer\nRotations- The higher, the faster it retrieves data, and the more heat it generates.\nRAID- Going to keep your other one? If so do you have enough slots ready?\nBrand- Is it a trusted brand. This isnt very important, but some have a better reputation
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there will be no range of distance that have higher data rate then 150 mbps, cause the fastest device that can take up that 14gb is the harddrive, and even fast drive like sata drive can only write at 6mb/sec, not to mention the limitations on No. of files making up that 14gb, bus, ram etc.
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SATA here and a fairly fast motherboard with 2GB Ram, still takes a lot loner than 10 seconds before it is "ready to work".\n\nIf it was with Linux or some other less bloated software than windows then yes, it may very well be practical.
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Currently, you can get a laptop hard drive that spins at 7200RPM, matching most desktop hard drives. Your computer's performance will be much better with the faster drive. Even 5400 RPM will make a significant difference. You'll get about a 50% max read speed boost by going from 4200 to 5400, and about 100% boost going from 4200 to 7200, which translates into much faster opening of files and programs.