On 6/14/11 5:33 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote:
The 2-SATA PCI card is worth it, it will speed up the system quite a
bit. At least it did on my old G4!
I'd like to see some benchmarks for before & after so that we'd have
some real data. There are plenty of anecdotal reports, but real data is
hard to find. In order to make the test fair, you'd need to clone your
HDs so that they're both as identical as possible. It's not enough to
simply clone the old ATA HD onto the new SATA HD, you'd then need to
re-clone the new SATA HD back onto the old ATA HD. A lot to ask for a
simple benchmark test, might take hours, so it's clear why it's done so
rarely.
It also makes quite a bit of difference how they are setup and how they
are used. If they are RAID 0, of course they will be faster, at risk of
data loss. Since he was talking about video, that is a very intensive
disc application so the test would have to be with massive read/writes
as you would do in video editing.
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