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Originally Posted by temeteus82
Well, you cant get that speed from that hard drive. If you did got it windows would not need RAM anymore 
anyway the speed of the bus is maximum theoretical speed of the SATAII standard. And the hard drives can't work at that speed. because laws of physics. |
Actually, it's not exactly theoretical, but rather situational. There are 2 reason for this: 1) the drive and controller needs to support all the functions of the standard to be capable of reaching that speed (support for NCQ to name but one feature), and 2) you will only see a difference between 1.5GB/s and 3GB/s transfer rates under certain situations, such as with data burst transfer rates. Servers are also one case where you will see the benifit from it whenever transaction load calls are made for data such as on web or file servers. In real world use though, you will not see the difference in speed... at least nothing significant. Sometimes you may even see a small decrease (which, btw, you can thank NCQ for that). Again, it all depends on the situation.
BTW, (edit: LOL.. and you beat me to it Panging.. LOL ) it should be pointed out that SATA-II is not senonomous with 3GB/s. SATA-II is infact the name of the organization that came up with, or rather finalized the specifications for SATA-II of which 3GB/s was part of that spec (and as a way to stop that confusion they changed their name to the SATA International Organization, or SATA-IO). While the SATA-II monicker is being used as a way to promote manufacturers drives, touting them as being SATA-II "compatible", you should remember that it doesn't necessarily mean they actually support all of the SATA-IIs finalized specs. For instance, some say they support SATA-II, but don't support NCQ. As a matter of fact, WDs own WDxxxJS and WDxxxKS series of SATA-II compatible drives don't support NCQ.
Just thought I'd clear that up.
