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 Member 419 Level 23.33 Mar 2006 
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Question about hard drive specs
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16822148134
What exactly does Interface SATA 3.0Gb/s mean? Since that is not the transfer rate, what is it? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 107 Level 33.47 Mar 2006
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Actually I believe that what it is, the maximum tranfer rate but in bits. 3,000 Gigabits/sec divided by eight (since it takes 8 bits to equal a byte) comes out to 0.375 Gigabytes/sec. Or you can say its throughput totals to about 375 Megabytes per second (or more like 300 MB/sec due to the 8B/10B encoding.)
Still that's pretty fast =o. Here's a wikipedia link for more info  .Most amazing jew boots |
Member 4283 Level 25.60 Mar 2006
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SATA 3.0Gb/s == SATA II. Just another way of saying it. And, yes, it is referring to it's theoretical transfer rates. You will not get anywhere close to 300MB/s with SATA II drives unless you run 3 or more of them in a RAID0 configuration.
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Member 419 Level 23.33 Mar 2006
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oh okay, I have a better understanding now, thank you both
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Member 815 Level 16.97 Mar 2006
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
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Member 1641 Level 10.58 Mar 2006
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What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
Member 1443 Level 14.20 Mar 2006
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Since were talking about HD's, I have a slightly different question. I'm on a laptop with either a 4200rpm or 5400rpm drive and I have an external USB2.0 drive which is 7200rpm. For gaming, which would be better?
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Member 4709 Level 26.30 Apr 2006
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Probably the internal, but its really a shot in the dark with out checking their speeds or knowing the specs of your hard drives.
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Member 815 Level 16.97 Mar 2006
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if the game needs better sequential read rates, go for the usb drive, but if it needs lots of random access, go with the internal
actually i'd benchmark it. use hdtach and benchmark your external vs. your internal. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
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