List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

[Thomas Wolf]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu> schrieb:

> FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote:
> > Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are:
> 
> > Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8
> 
> I have one of these, and I am really impressed by its performance.  I 
> added one to my computer, which came with a Maxtor 6Y080L0.  My main 
> disk intensive operation is creating the CTM deltas (as in CTM which is 
> an alternative to CVSUP for people behind unfriendly firewalls).  The 
> performance difference was somewhat collosal, as in something like 3 
> times faster.  To be honest, I am still at a loss to explain why the 
> Seagate did so very much better - maybe it is the 8M cache as compared 
> to the 2M cache.  The Seagate 7200.7 had similar performance to a 
> Seagate 160MHz SCSI drive that I have on another computer.

Ah, please tell me more about it, is this a ST3120827AS?
(I would need the exact PartNo.) What controller dou you have 
and finally, on which version of FreeBSD?

Many thanks in advance

Thomas

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