The Computer with no name has passed...

[CoasterMatt]

SATA controllers will address the device at the speed it supports, so it would communicate with the DVD drive at the 1.5gb/s rate and the hard drives at the full 3.0gb/s rate.

According to Wikipedia:

SATA/300's transfer rate is expected to satisfy drive throughput requirements for some time, as the fastest desktop hard disks barely saturate a SATA/150 link. This is why a SATA data cable rated for 1.5 Gbit/s will currently handle second generation, SATA 3.0 Gbit/s sustained and burst data transfers without any loss of performance.

I did some tests with my own system, using SiSoft Sandra and Everest, and even when burning a CD, the HD (a Sata/300 160gb 7200rpm drive) performance didn't drop off during benchmarking.

YMMV

In other news, I've been drafted to build my first 8 core machine - of course, it won't be for my own use, but it'll be fun putting it together.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

SATA controllers will address the device at the speed it supports, so it would communicate with the DVD drive at the 1.5gb/s rate and the hard drives at the full 3.0gb/s rate.

Damn. Perhaps I should have stayed with the SATA DVD burner. Oh well, I have the IDE version now and I'm sure that will do.

[Ghoulish Delight]

SATA controllers will address the device at the speed it supports, so it would communicate with the DVD drive at the 1.5gb/s rate and the hard drives at the full 3.0gb/s rate.

According to Wikipedia:

I did some tests with my own system, using SiSoft Sandra and Everest, and even when burning a CD, the HD (a Sata/300 160gb 7200rpm drive) performance didn't drop off during benchmarking.

Were the burner and the hard drive on the same SATA cable? The info above does not contradict the info Moonliner posted. A SATA cable/controller may be able to handle a single device that's rated at a higher speed, but that's different than speed negotiating between multiple devices on the same link. It may not suck all the bandwidth, however it may only be able to handle a single clock rate.

[CoasterMatt]

Sata devices use individual cables, not chained cables like pata.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Sata devices use individual cables, not chained cables like pata.

Smacks forhead. Oh yeah, duh.

[Kevy Baby]

And the knee bone connects to the thigh bone...

[CoasterMatt]

And you flap your arms, and your legs start kickin'
That's how you know, you're doin' the funky chicken!

[Kevy Baby]

You put your hard drive in
You put your hard drive out
You put your hard drive in
And you shake it all about

[CoasterMatt]

Moonie: If you haven't already purchased your memory, Fry's has an excellent offer right now - 4gb Patriot Extreme PC6400 DDR2 for $89 *without a rebate*

[Moonliner]

The computer with no name is back!

The base install on Son-Of-No-Name is complete. I installed the VMware so now I have The-Computer-With-No-Name running as a virtual PC inside Son-Of-No-Name (err, perhaps I better make that Daughter-Of-No-Name)

So now I am typing this using remote desktop from work to access a virtual PC on Daughter-of-no-name.

I'll be adding additional virtual machines for Vista and Ubuntu. Life is good.


My inner-geek is shining bright today.