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PAGE ONE
of TWO Originally
posted 09/09/03 by rob-ART
morgan,
mad scientist In an earlier
article, we compared
Serial ATA to Parallel ATA to FireWire
800,
using the same essential drive. In this article, we
will compare three different brands of Serial
ATA drives: Hitachi Deskstar 7K250, Maxtor
DiamondMax Plus 9, and Seagate Barracuda 7200.7. We
tossed in some numbers for the factory Serial
ATA drive that ships with the G5/1.8GHz Power
Mac (which happens to be a Seagate
7200.7). In addition, we
converted two Parallel ATA drives (Hitachi
Deskstar 180GXP and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9) to
Serial ATA using the Addonics
adapter. We wanted to see if your existing
investment in Parallel ATA drives can be adapted to
Serial ATA and still compete with "native" SATA
drives. For a SATA
host adapter, we used the FirmTek
SeriTek/1S2
Serial ATA PCI card in a G4/1.42GHz MP Power Mac.
(You can also use this card in a G5. We will retest
once we take delivery of our G5 Dual
2Ghz.) (Drives
with "*" have been converted from PATA to
SATA.) CONTINUE TO
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