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when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:01 am
by vbironchef
I am building a new rig since I canceled my apple I-mac order. I wanted to buy a western digital black 2 tb drive but I can't seem to find one on line without a 1month wait. What's going on? Should I just buy a 300gb WD raptor instead? Or should I wait and see if SATA III @6Gb/s are going to be released soon.
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:15 am
by geokilla
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Already available. Seems that the Caviar Blacks are still better though.
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:47 am
by werty316
Based on prelim testing SATA 6.0 does provide a big improvement as we expected. Only real difference is the increased burst rate.
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:31 am
by Apoptosis
@ werty316
Do you have a SATA 6Gbps board?
If you do you can't boot a RAID array from the current Marvell SATA 6Gbps controller as I showed in this article -
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1139/1/
Also if you look at a SATA 6Gbps drives performance on the Marvell controller versus the Intel ICH10R chipset the difference is small -
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1127/1/
Boards today only have two SATA 6Gbps headers, only the Seagate XT drives have SATA 6Gbps support right now and you can't boot RAID off the current controller/driver/BIOS....
I personally would wait and not do my next build with this is a feature as something to build around. I got both the Gigabyte and ASUS solutions here and plenty of drives and I'm not impressed by what I am seeing so far.
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:21 am
by JMMD
Seems like it's a ways off from being a huge improvement. Maybe a few more gens of SSD's and then we'll see something awesome.
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:16 pm
by vbironchef
So I am requesting what hard drive to use for c drive.
My build is as follows:
Intel Core i7-860 Lynnfield 2.8GHz
ASUS P7P55D-E Premium LGA 1156 Intel P55 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR DOMINATOR 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMD8GX3M4A1600C8
SAMSUNG Black 22X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 22X DVD-R 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA DVD Burner LightScribe Support
LIAN LI PC-B25F Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
corsair hx1000 ps
2 xfx 280 graphic cards
Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus cpu cooler
Dell UltraSharp U2410
windows 7 pro 64 bit
never mind I just ordered the Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
what do you think of my build? Would you make any changes?
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:40 pm
by martini161
you cant use an i7 on an i5 board
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:01 pm
by vbironchef
are you sure that I made a mismatch?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... LGA%201156 It's good to hear from you!
Re: when do the SATA III @6Gb/s hard drives come out?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:53 pm
by DMB2000uk
vbironchef's right, intel just has muddied the waters with the LGA1156 i7's.
Dan