http://coffeenix.net/doc/hardware/sata_roadmap.gif


Source :

http://www.tek.com/Measurement/application..._data/sata.html

Maybe SATA III is delay to be released, for those who plan to get 500GB SATA II HDD, I think is the right time? Since the 500GB HDD Samsung SATA II is selling at RM400 right now from forumer.

The connector & cable maybe upgrade, means won't campatible with recent SATA port OR maybe need a converter !

500GB HDD with 3.0Gb/s is too slow when transfer the whole capacity to backup. Should this prefer to wait for SATA III with 6.0Gb/s transfer rate ?

Or who can tell us to know when was the SATA III gonna released ?

i thought Seagate already announed SATA III for Barracuda series long time ago?

wah....I havn't use SATAII then SATAIII is coming...WTF >.<

Useless to you and me if you ask me.

Not that any HDDs can even take advantage of SATA1's transfer rates in the first place

Slow because of S-ATA II? LOL! I have yet to see HDDs with a Read and Write speed of a constant 150MB/s. HDDs are becoming outdated soon, SSDs are taking over.

This post has been edited by ffrulz: Oct 25 2007, 09:20 PM

our usual harddisk usually peak out of usual 80MB/s the most, so we aint even getting the usual speed of SATA 1.5gb/s, let alone SATA 2 which is 3gb/s... 6gb/s is wayyyyyy tooooooooo farrrrrrrrr .......

of coz SCSI HDD should make the diffrence, but not SATA, SATAII unless ur having the 10K rpm 1s

This post has been edited by zeustronic: Oct 25 2007, 09:30 PM

Do u means WD Raptor ? That SCSI 15k rpm SATA with 36 / 74 / 150 GB can cost u RM3XX - RM1k++.
Which can't afford by entry level users, for 'HOME USER', 500GB HDD with SATA II 3.0Gb/s is that consider efficiency?

This post has been edited by cinbao: Oct 26 2007, 12:11 AM

No. Raptors are not SSDs (and for your info Raptor is only 10k RPM). SSD is an abbreviation of Solid-State Drive.

Look, it doesn't matter if the 500GB HDD is using SATA, SATA II or even SATA III. The bottleneck here is not at the connections a.k.a. buses, it is at the HDD itself (the read and write time of the HDD). So even if you are using a 500GB SATA III HDD, it still doesn't fare any better than it does with SATA II or even SATA.

Even the fastest consumer HDD like the Raptor150 that I'm using now is on SATA1 only. There's no need for even SATA2. SATA2 n SATA3 is like having a super expressway but then u drive a Kancil on it at 80kmh.

Right on.. The best analogy ever.

I think HDD is the bottle neck when the app is getting humongous and even with the latest CPU and RAM, it'll still slow to a certain point. Unless, everything runs at it's recommended limit, then it's going to be good

better la.. atleast sata I n II can drop price..

i still using old PATA interface

Actually supersit the older 1s, usually the make backward compatible.

SATA-III Not yet comes out ...... it's the shop calling SATA 3 meaning SATA 3Gbps not really SATA-III, 3rd generation. It's SATA-II, 2nd generation with 3 Gbps transfer rate.

hmm.. if SATA 3 is coming out, that means need new motherboard to support their new cable and new Graphic card also for PCI-E 2.0

The price will kill us

ya everything new and intel is gonna change their socket too

Getting a Hitachi 400GB T7K400 (with S-ATA II 3.0Gb/s , NCQ) - RM315
Hitachi 320GB (with S-ATA II 3.0Gb/s , NCQ) T7K320 - RM265
WD 500GB (S-ATA II 3.0Gb/s) - RM380
Samsung 500GB (S-ATA II 3.0Gb/s) - RM360
Seagate 320GB (S-ATA II 3.0Gb/s, NCQ) - RM230
Seagate 500GB (S-ATA II 3.0Gb/s, NCQ) - =<RM500?

That the Dilemma have to face, getting the Hitachi 400GB with RM315, is this godsend price ?

The HDD performance thread from ianho was usefullness, that the link : http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/351064