Re: SATA question

Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: Yes, some SATA drives, are re-designed from the PATA drives, incorporating a SATA/PATA bridge on the drive, I think yours is similar to mine, with native SATA Of course you can also buy external SATA/PATA convertors, but I wasn't expecting you to be using one of those. If the rpm, number of platters, and data encoding stay the same, so will the performance, broadly speaking, 8MB or 16MB of cache will only have an effect if you're doing reading that fits a certain pattern, and as we've seen the physical disk couldn't even half fill an ATA133 interface (let alone SATA, or SATA II) only cache reads can do that. It lets the o/s make several read requests to the drive in parallel, then the drive re-orders them according to where it *know* the physical heads are to minimize seek time, and maximize throughput. like SCSI has done for a long time. Remember they head/cylinder/sector numbers you see from SATA/PATA disks are basically *lies* with LBA so the o/s can't know this. Sorry I don't have (or know about) nForce chipset, my Intel mobo supports SATA II's 3Gb/s speed, but not the NCQ.