JonNik
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I can't quote anything, but I know that the real-world SATA is far less than the benchmarking results based on the actual usage. However, I know you can see differences 5400RPM vs 7200RPM on the same bus, so I can only imagine that it would be noticeable (for loading, etc) when adding the SATA advantage.
This is generally true of synthetic benchmarks, I must admit, though there are some good Tools out there. Also actually using any benchmark becomes
sometimes obsolete if you dont carefully consider the specific performance
profile of the machine/applications you are going to install the hardware you
are interested in. They do give you an idea though especially for HD about
seek times read/writes burst performance etc...
It just stikes me as odd that despite the added advantage of the 2x buffer
(16mb) the 7200->10000 rpm and generally good characteristics would not
amount to a greater difference in perf for the Raptor.
Keep in mind that despite my profession I actually research HW only prior
to actually buying so I might be a bit behind things (been a year+ since I
installed my Raptor Raid).
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