SATA II, any one use it?

[Ethan Holdtrue]

Is any one out there useing SATA II (AKA SATA 300)? Apearently it has a transfer rate of 3 gigs per sec rather than the 1.5 gigs per sec + some other goodies.

Any info?

[hogfish]

That would be Gigabits per second,which adds up to 375 MB per second, which is pretty good,except that transfer speeds almost never reach their maximum rated speeds..........

[digitaldrummer]

SATA II drives won't help you any if your controller is not SATA II also. SATA II drives/hbas may also benefit from the addition of NCQ (native command queuing) which allows the drives to process more than a single outstanding command (traditional ATA must complete every single command before accepting the next). SATA II is more like SCSI in this respect and can benefit where the disk I/O patterns are random in nature (if you've done a lot of editing of your files, they may will be sequential as they were when you recorded them initially) .

however with that said, i'm using a pair of SATA I drives and I can easily exceed my CPU power (3.2GHz P4 w/HT) before I stress the disks (thats 32+ audio tracks with Pro Tools LE 6.9 on the davec test).

Mike