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

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 00:39 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Dude, you're making me want to upgrade.

All I have right now is my "feel."
It could be other factors I'm not considering.

E.g., the ATA of the nVidia chipset could really suck, and that's why
there's a huge differential.  Or it could be the generation of disks.

That's why I want to get identical ATA and SATA drives, and I'll also
compare the ATA version in the nForce ATA to my AMD and 3Ware cards
(JBOD mode) -- assuming I find the time.

> 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.

I'm just happy the nv_sata works _flawless_ in Linux, very happy.

Another cool thing in XP -- nVidia's "unified driver" means the _same_
configuration is used for both ATA and SATA, so I didn't have to boot
Linux and hack the registry when I switched from ATA to SATA for my
boot.


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