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GM7HUD > PC 10.06.08 10:06l 18 Lines 759 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 13491_GB7ESX
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Subj: Re: GIGABIT Hub ?
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Andrew G8TZJ wrote:
>I always thought that you never would get data on / off a PATA HDD
>at much more than this except in a raid configuration witth data striped
> across the drives.
You're right that PATA is only 133Mbps max.
My hard disk will sustain 16x data write to a DVD which is about 22.25Mbytes/sec
but on disk tests it will do 45-50Mbytes/sec. To flatten a gigbit link you
need to be able to get 80Mbytes/sec+. SATA achieves 1.2Gbps for SATA 1 and
SATA 3 is nearer 3Gbps. The early drive mechanisms weren't able to saturate
the SATA interface.
Putting gigabit interfaces onboard is not expensive, not really any more
expensive than a 100MB interface. The cost comes from having ancilliaries that
can benefit from the speed.
73 de Andy GM7HUD
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