All they need to do is upgrade the (on-board) controllers to operate all the heads in parallel. For a 4 platter drive (8 heads) they could get an immediate 8X improvement in real read and write speeds.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 11:26 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Disk based backup On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Terry Dickson <te...@treasurer.state.ks.us> wrote: > Keep an eye on Sata, Sata3 is coming fast and > the speed will a HUGE difference. Modern hard drives can sustain, what, maybe 0.4 to 0.6 Gbit/sec? Even the 3 Gbit/sec we have now is much higher than that. How is moving to 6 Gbit/sec going to help? :) -- ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
