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June 30th, 2005 12:00
Dimension 8400 MCE05 and SATA II
I have a Dimension 8400 MCE05 (bought around january), and I have a couple of SATA drives.
I have read some about SATA II. Is my setup compatible, or is there an update I need to install?
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Nate
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ejn63
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June 30th, 2005 13:00
Effectively, unless you're going to build a RAID array it makes no difference - even a 10K rpm SATA Raptor can't deliver more than about 70 MBps from the platters. It'll take 15,000 rpm SATA drives to come anywhere near 100 MBps from platter to interface, and no one has announced those yet.
SATA2 is an issue only for RAID arrays on servers. There it makes a difference.