Correct. Until they improve the "raw" speed of the drives, the faster interface helps mainly to speed up reading and writing to the drives onboard ram cache, which is a good thing but doesn't help applications where you need sustained high speed reading and writing (video, raw data collection etc).
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 2:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hard disk technology (was: Disk based backup) On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Sam Cayze <sam.ca...@rollouts.com> wrote: > It promises a sustained transfer rate of just 140MBps ... I presume they mean 140 Mbyte/sec, which is 1140 Mbit/sec (ignoring overhead). In other words, it can't even saturate first-generation SATA (1500 Mbit/sec), let alone second-generation (3000 Mbit/sec), let twice alone the new 6000 Mbit/sec some people are so excited about. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
