George Toft wrote:
>
> Personally, I think SATA sux.
>
>
I'm about to come to the same conclusion. We've tried several different
SATA drives and interfaces on five recently purchased computers from
various manufacturers, and the I/O performance has been abysmal. This is
with no adapters involved, just straight SATA drives into SATA
interfaces. Comparing ATA drives with SATA drives, the performance on
the systems has been disturbingly different, on the order of 3 to 4
times faster using ATA drives with the same specs as the SATA drives.
I've looked in the BIOS for the magic "Go faster" setting and haven't
found anything yet. Two of these were name brand (one a Dell, one an
HP) new systems, so I would think they would ship with at least decent
default settings. It's not just a Linux thing either. The SATA drives
were slower in Windows too.
It's been better so far to install an old ATA interface card in a PCI
slot with ATA drives compared to an onboard SATA interface and SATA
drives, and that just shouldn't be.
Bill
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