[Pc_Support] Re: Fastest Hard Drive Access for Large (Video) Files

[David Simmons]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 08:45 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > Ok...so given that my motherboard already has a SATA connection...and
> > (hopefully) it's on some kinda 'dedicated' or internal bus...
> 
> Many chipsets use one (1) PCIe channel with a dedicated, bi-directional
> 250MBps bus for the 2-4 SATA channels.

Maybe on newer motherboards...but again, this is not one of them...just
PCI bus with SATA built-on....It's a Gigabyte...hmmm...GA-7N400VPro I
think.

> _If_ you need lots of random seek.  If it is just raw, linear throughput
> with sequential reads, then sometimes density is better.  It all
> depends

So...that would mean a RAID-0 setup?

dave