[Pc_Support] Serious performance boost by going to SATA on nForce4 [standard] chipset ...

[Jason Boxman]

On Wednesday 06 July 2005 00:00, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> All --
>
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> Whatever it is, I really need to get two drives of the same model to
> test it out further, and throw a few apps at it.  Otherwise, I am
> extremely and pleasantly surprised to see the result.  Again, I can only
> assume a good part of the reason is because the 4-port SATA of the
> nForce (all versions -- Standard, Ultra and SLI -- the latter two being
> SATA-2/300, mine is only SATA-1/150, not that it's much difference
> today) is on its own PCIe x1, whereas all the other ATA is on the
> legacy, shared PCI bus.

Dude, you're making me want to upgrade.

Stop. ;)

I can't afford it right now, especially since it doesn't make sense to get the 
really cheap legacy stuff now with PCIe stuff not much more expensive.

Sigh.

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Jason Boxman
Perl Programmer / *NIX Systems Administrator
Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing | University of Florida
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