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Is SATA-150 good enough?

Thursday, July 27th, 2006
Posted in Storage Interconnects & RAID, Advisor - Tom Treadway

Question: Regarding SATA vs SATA II for an older PC Workstation, will using an add-on SATA II controller really help the data read/writes to a RAID 1 pair of disks if my system bus is a PCI 33MHZ bus? Would a SATA 150 controller do just as good? In other words, where is the bottleneck?…