My mobo is SATA 3.0Gb/s capable, but from what I can tell I won't notice any difference between the two interfaces unless i setup a raid setup (which im not planning on).

Basically I'm considering these two groups of hard drives:


SATA 150 drives with 16MB Cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=354%3A7760&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=359%3A7918&PropertyCodeValue=0&description=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=14&Submit=Property

SATA 3.0Gb/s with 16MB Cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=354%3A7760&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=359%3A15133&PropertyCodeValue=0&description=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=14&Submit=Property

would i notice any difference between these two groups of drives? any particular drive/series I should get?

[Edited on December 21, 2005 at 1:50 AM. Reason : ]

12/21/2005 1:48:13 AM

is there a difference? yes
will you notice a difference? nah

even in raid unless youre going with 10,000rpm HDDs the computing difference is in fractions of a second so small that unless you have the cash just sitting around to do it there is no need.

12/21/2005 9:29:56 AM

^actually the 7200 rpm 3.0 gb/sec SATA II drives outperform the 10,000 rpm drives in benchmarks I've looked at.

Of course they were SATA and not something like ultra scsi.

[Edited on December 21, 2005 at 10:15 AM. Reason : ]

12/21/2005 10:15:04 AM