RAID 0 w/ SATA Drives v. w/ PATA Drives

SoooopahflySoooopahfly
edited August 2003 in Hardware
Well I know about how the new SATA drives are running up in the 150mb transfer ranges now, which outperform PATA's that run at about 133. So I'm just curious, will I see lots of real world performance increase by using two SATA drives for a RAID-0 array over two PATA drives? Or more simply, is the little extra money for SATA drives worth the performace increase over the PATA drives?

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  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    It won't give you enough to justify any extra expense. A lot of folks are getting close to 100K Atto's with 2 PATA's in RAID 0 and the best scores I have seen with 2 SATA's in RAID 0 are not much more than 100K. For less than a 20k/sec increase the cost just isn't justified.

    BTW
    Raptors are the only ones I have been seeing any icreases in the scores and they are what I referanced above.
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