Sata 6Gb/s Drive

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Hello

If I got a 1TB Sata 6Gb/s (Maybe Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (WD1002FAEX) would it work on a motherboard that doesnt have Sata 6Gb/s?
I want the Sata 6Gb/s for when I upgrade later on but obviously if it won't work I'll leave it til then.

Thanks

Iggy
 
It'll work fine.

And there's no way you'll ever get close to saturating 3Gb/s on a mechanical drive, so I hope you didn't pay extra for 6Gb/s.
 
Well i havent got it yet. My idea is to rip my music losslessly (4212 tracks). Itd take too much space to fit on any current ssd's so i thought id put it on big hdd.
 
Tute wasn't debating the size of the HDD, just mentioning the fact that SATA 6Gb/s is a complete waste of money for mechanical drives, as they can't transfer data fast enough to utilise it.

If it's just for storage, then there's no need to spend £90 on a 1TB drive. This drive is a far better choice.
 
What about if you raid 0 a few of the drives together on a sata 3 controller? Would it be more worthwhile to get the drive the OP mentions?
 
mattmos said:
What about if you raid 0 a few of the drives together on a sata 3 controller? Would it be more worthwhile to get the drive the OP mentions?
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No.

The 6Gb/s bandwidth is the link between the drive and the controller. The RAID0 max throughput is determined by the bandwidth of the link between the controller and your northbridge, which remains the same.

Unless the individual drives are capable of over 260MB/s SATA6 can't help.
 
IggyStooge said:
Well i havent got it yet. My idea is to rip my music losslessly (4212 tracks). Itd take too much space to fit on any current ssd's so i thought id put it on big hdd.
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If it's just for storage why do you need 6Gbps anyways? Just get a current 3Gbps 1TB for peanuts. The 6Gbps ones are rather pricey!
 
1TB for 4200 tracks (425 albums) losslessly is big enough isnt it? I'm wondering if itll leave me much space for in the future. Does FLAC work in Windows Media Player?
 
I've actually, surprisingly, very surprisingly, come across some benchmarks that DO suggest the 6gbps interface offers a little improvement in performance, at least on the Barracuda XT.

I was under the impression there would be little to no difference, though its worth saying you CAN'T get the XT as a non Sata 3 version. Its certainly faster on a Marvell Sata 3 controller than Intel sata 2 chipset.

A couple other drives I've seen show no difference in the slighest, and the WD would be one of them. Though the Western Digi is the same as the Sata 2 one and the XT was specifically made for Sata 3 and likely has a tweaked/better controller which is why its noticably faster than the 7200.12 Barra's.

In reality though, Sata 3 won't make a noticeable difference on any mechanical drive and pretty much no SSD's either.

Even the C300 Sata 3 Crucial SSD, the bulk of where its really fast is the random read/writes, thats where the SSD speed really shows its difference to mechanical drives, you're talking about performance between 10-50mb/s for small random read/writes, thats clearly not being bottlenecked by a Sata 2 interface.

Though its likely Sata 3 controllers are just, better, because they are newer, have new tweaks, better i/o handling and marginally improved performance, though again, that might not show for a few driver sets and bios updates.
 
Ok so I think I'm gonna get 2x Western Digital Black 1TB and put one in an Icy Box IB-390StUSD-B for backup.

Just wondered as they are the same price this week and have 64 Mb Cache instead of 32mb is it worth getting the 6Gb/s version and would they work in the Icy Box?
 
rpg said:
Tute wasn't debating the size of the HDD, just mentioning the fact that SATA 6Gb/s is a complete waste of money for mechanical drives, as they can't transfer data fast enough to utilise it.

If it's just for storage, then there's no need to spend £90 on a 1TB drive. This drive is a far better choice.
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the f3 is a great hd its a lot faster than my sammy 501
 
drunkenmaster said:
I've actually, surprisingly, very surprisingly, come across some benchmarks that DO suggest the 6gbps interface offers a little improvement in performance, at least on the Barracuda XT.

I was under the impression there would be little to no difference, though its worth saying you CAN'T get the XT as a non Sata 3 version. Its certainly faster on a Marvell Sata 3 controller than Intel sata 2 chipset.

A couple other drives I've seen show no difference in the slighest, and the WD would be one of them. Though the Western Digi is the same as the Sata 2 one and the XT was specifically made for Sata 3 and likely has a tweaked/better controller which is why its noticably faster than the 7200.12 Barra's.

In reality though, Sata 3 won't make a noticeable difference on any mechanical drive and pretty much no SSD's either.

Even the C300 Sata 3 Crucial SSD, the bulk of where its really fast is the random read/writes, thats where the SSD speed really shows its difference to mechanical drives, you're talking about performance between 10-50mb/s for small random read/writes, thats clearly not being bottlenecked by a Sata 2 interface.

Though its likely Sata 3 controllers are just, better, because they are newer, have new tweaks, better i/o handling and marginally improved performance, though again, that might not show for a few driver sets and bios updates.
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Good reply. :)
 
IggyStooge said:
I heard they were a bit on the noisy side and only 3 year warranty
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They're the quietest 7200rpm drives around.

Did you see my post about the space your music will need? It's a pittance and if this is for storage anyway I'd really suggest a Samsung F2, more suitable and quieter still. You can get 2x500GB for less than a single Black or 1.5TB for less than a single black even.
 
Gonna go for the F2 1.5TB, im sure itll be sufficient for my requirements. Thanks for all the replys.
 
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