The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

Couldnt have said it better myself. I love my sata drives. My poor AAKB 500gb ide drive is ran via usb due to the fact that my burners are taking up ALL available controllers. Really doesnt bother me. Its just a storage drive. It averages 20,000Kb/s write and read. Its all the usb controller will allow, is my guess. Certainly not maxing the usb header! The header should be upwards of 40-45,000Kb/s, not sure. Never seen the benchmark on USB. Cant wait for revision 3. Should be an interesting year ahead of us. MULTIPLE new technology releases.

 

omegaman7,
Where you at? I have an IDE to Sata adapter you can have. It's only Sata 2 1.5Gb/s for a single Sata drive, but it would be a lot faster than a USB to Sata. You just plug the board into the IDE on the MB and plug the Sata cable into it. You may need to check and see if you will have to put a jumper on your Sata drive, although I doubt it. I've used it a couple of times and it seems to work fine. Like I say, you are welcome to it!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Appreciate the offer but, Its an IDE drive, for one, and it is fast enough for what I use it. I transfer music, Small video clips, etc. So for the most part, its quick enough. THANK YOU though Gonna have to try and run another drive though soon, just to see it cross the 2TB threshold. It wouldnt do it a few weeks ago, but That QUITE possibly could have been due to insufficient power. I suppose its also possible, that the drive I tried connecting via usb, didnt like its jumper setting or the usb-ide adapter was malfunctioning, SOMETHING along those lines anyway.

 

My bad! I thought it was usb to Sata!

Russ

 

No No, I would never insult a sata connection like that, LOL. Cant wait for sata rev3

 

Hey Russ here's your case we talked about day b4 yesterday you like
on sale at MicroCenter less than $100 brother..If you know it or not?I don't know if you gotta Micro Center near you or not..I gotta say..i kinda like it myself

http://microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0265324

 

Holy Chit, Batman! LOL!! I'll be ordering one Friday! There's a MicroCenter in Tustin which is about 45 miles away! That is a great price and even if it doesn't work out for the x2 7750, when I put the 780G MB in Russell's computer, I'll use it then! That's a fantastic price man! Almost 50% off! Thanks Will! I owe you one!

Best Regards,
Russ

 

Bet you get NEWEGG pretty quick <-----Jealous! Tempting to buy one myself. But then i'd be living on Ramen for a couple weeks. Got some Bill catching up to do, LOL

 

Correct, many utils won't allow you to test write performance without wiping all the data on the drive. Be careful of that!
USB is limited to 30MB/s (240Mbps) exactly. Why the printed speed is double this I'm unsure, but you will never see more than 30MB/s of throughput, if it's in both directions it drops to 15 each way. USB3 is certainly going to be itnteresting.
IDE to SATA dongles are a good idea though, they cost almost nothing and work pretty well.

Also, having recently re-installed the 750GB Barracuda into my PC:
Before
CPU Idle: 38ºC
WD360GD: 39ºC
HD753LJ: 36ºC
Now
CPU Idle: 40ºC
WD360GD: 42ºC
HD753LJ: 39ºC
ST3750640AS: 52ºC (rose to 56 yesterday evening)
I was unable to get the temperature of the Seagate below 48 celsius with the SFF21F at maximum speed.
One does wonder, how much power is being used to create all that heat?

 

ok all im learning more every day in here..lol
i know a IDE hdd is slower than a SATA hdd but is there a difference in quality transferbetween the 2? i now have 1 segate barracuda 16mb cache 250gb sata and a WD GP 16mb cache,500gb sata. i just installed a segate 16mb cache 250gb IDE hdd. only for some extra storage. if i use it to store movies/pics/mp3 ect.... when i go to burn from that drive, i know it will be a little slower than the sata drive but will the quality be less than the sata?

wheres boozer been?

 

The quality of a file depends on how it is encoded, the only way a file could become impared after having been encoded is if it became corrupted, i.e. data loss. Normally, Hard disks do not have that problem unless you use an nForce 6 chipset

Realistically, the burn speed from an IDE or S-ATA drive should be pretty much identical as even the fastest DVD speed, 22x is only 30.5MB/s, which is far from the 50+ that even older IDE hard drives can manage. Assuming the data on the drive is contiguous, it should have no trouble keeping up.

 

Better call them first, that item is backordered.

 

cool so then useing hte drive for storage to pull/burn stuff from i should have no worries. just make sure the dirve has been defraged and all should be peaches..lol

i try not to put the info/data on one drive them move to another and back and forth. try to keep it on the drive im gonna burn from.

 

not trying ot start a mobo war again. but here are 2 good mobos that work well with your Q6600. and i think they are pretty cheap. i dont know how much ya wanna spend and they both have 6 reg sata and 2 esata so your good to go there
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...mpareItemList=N82E16813128359,N82E16813128358

 

sorry to hear about it going south on ya. i would be pissed as well. hey if/when you do get another board. id try and contact MSI and see if they will rma it for ya. whats the worse they can say no????

here is a ASUS board. kinda cheap(mobo wise) and it is a good popular board as well. it also has 6 reg sata and 2 esata plugins.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131299

and works well with the quad cores.

EDIT:
hey now i have a C2D and my dvd-reb times arent that bad 45 mins on average... some faster some longer.im sure your quad is much faster,but i dont have one so im happy with my C2D..lol

 

Those UD3 motherboards are certainly good performers, I'd probably recommend going with those to prevent any issues regarding a Quad core's power consumption. However, the EP43-DS3L is probably substantially cheaper and still quite well featured.