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How do I get SATA with NF7 non S
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You can always use an exterior PCI card with a s-ata controller.
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I agree with what Suma said. Just get a PCI card with an SATA controller. I do not beleive the normal NF7 comes with SATA. I think only the NF7-S has it becuase not only does the S have Soundstorm thanks to the MCP-T southbridge, but it has SATA.
That would have to depend. Are you planning on doing a motherboard upgrade in the future? SATA is not really that big now, benchmarks prove that for normal drives SATA 150 does not really help that much over ATA 133 and 100. The real benefit is some of the faster 10k RPM drives such as Hitachi's 300Gb 4 platter one that just came out, and the 10k WD raptors. In the future just about all of the motherboards will have SATA, so if you need to upgrade your HDD's now, then it would probably be more worth it to get SATA and an SATA drive that is fast, like one of the 10k rpm ones. But, if it is not really that nessesary, I would just hold off untill the next time you get a new motherboard/proc etc. I personally am going to hold off on alot of things, pretty much all upgrades for a year or two until it becomes nesscessary to build a completely new rig from the ground up. I might get a video card for free via review, and a motherboard or ram, but other than that, I cant see myself upgrading.
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That would have to depend. Are you planning on doing a motherboard upgrade in the future? SATA is not really that big now, benchmarks prove that for normal drives SATA 150 does not really help that much over ATA 133 and 100. The real benefit is some of the faster 10k RPM drives such as Hitachi's 300Gb 4 platter one that just came out, and the 10k WD raptors. In the future just about all of the motherboards will have SATA, so if you need to upgrade your HDD's now, then it would probably be more worth it to get SATA and an SATA drive that is fast, like one of the 10k rpm ones. But, if it is not really that nessesary, I would just hold off untill the next time you get a new motherboard/proc etc. I personally am going to hold off on alot of things, pretty much all upgrades for a year or two until it becomes nesscessary to build a completely new rig from the ground up. I might get a video card for free via review, and a motherboard or ram, but other than that, I cant see myself upgrading.
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i like maxtor's ata 133 drives w/ 8mb cache . they're purdy darn quick.
. they're purdy darn quick.
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disk11 said:
Ah...funny how both my 160G and 80G Maxtor HDD's both get over 25MB
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Western digital caviars are as fast of an IDE drive as you can get AFAIK.
Correction: Hitachi takes the cake I think - http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=LeaderBoard
Correction: Hitachi takes the cake I think - http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=LeaderBoard
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Transfer a large file and you will see what I'm talking about. No way a IDE drive can sustain the 45 MB/s suggested by HD tach. That's SCSI territory.
Forget SANDRA, that number you showed me is an average of several tests which does not equalte the the sustained transfer rate I'm talking about.
