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    Does the M1330 have an SATA II chipset?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by shaba230, Jun 26, 2008.

  1. shaba230

    shaba230 Notebook Consultant

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    or is it still sata I?

    Can someone please give me a definitive answer...searched like crazy (google and this forum) to no avail.

    Thanks.
     
    shaba230, Jun 26, 2008
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  2. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    SATAI...the current Intel mobile chipsets are all SATAI.
     
    Greg, Jun 26, 2008
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    shaba230 Notebook Consultant

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    was reading benchmarks over at tomshardware on a 2.5" sata II hard drive, since you're saying all intel mobile chipsets are sata I, does this mean they must have done their benchmarks on an sata I chipset?

    thanks!!

    p.s. i know the throughput on sata I isn't even close to being reached but i've read benchmarks taht show the updated chipsets that support sata II are just more effecient therefore perform better.
     
    shaba230, Jun 26, 2008
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    actually upon further research if it's using an ICH8 chipset, i've found that it is SATA II. can someone confirm if it's ICH8 in their Santa Rosa M1330?

    Thanks!!
     
    shaba230, Jun 27, 2008
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    M1330 are using ICH8 chipset for HDD SATA II. A huge improvement in speed when back up my 120GB HDD drive to my 320GB HDD with SATA II. You won't notice any improvement with small files.
     
    Sam1, Jun 27, 2008
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    THANK YOU SIR!!!! :) That's what i was most concerned with, was doing my nightly backups.
     
    shaba230, Jun 27, 2008
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    Let's be clear.

    ICH8 provides SATA-II support, but it is not a SATA-II chipset in itself.

    You won't get the speed benefits of SATA-II, as I've discovered upon installing a faster than SATA-I SSD :frown:
    All it means is that SATA-II HDDs will work with it...

    Feel free to benchmark with ATTO (download here) if you don't believe me.
    From my research so far, it would appear there is NOT a single SATA-II mobile chipset out there :(
     
    Faiakes, Mar 8, 2009
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    Faiakes: Hi sir, could you tell me what I'm supposed to see in that application?
    I just tried it and on a 8192 kb file I get:
    Write: 82468 (makes sense, about what tomshardware charts shows).
    Read: 283159 (makes... ?)

    Doesn't that suggest that my M1330 laptop (1 year old) IS sataII?
    Altho I'm not sure, because it seems TOO GOOD, so I'm suspicious, altho Sisoft sandra also shows ridicolously high score (243 MB/s), however h2benchw.exe shows a much more modest score of 150.3 MByte/s in "sequential read rate medium w/ read-ahead" whatever that is.

    I'm using a X25-m 80gb internally.
     
    RonJeremy, Mar 18, 2009
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    You, Sir Faiakes, are a f.ucking a.sshole.

    Next time you say something isn't possible, spend a minute to back it up.
     
    RonJeremy, Mar 23, 2009
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    tsk tsk bypassing the filter's a no no :rolleyes: :no:
     
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    But he's Ron Jeremy -- a big fat harry ape.
     
    StudioXPS16, Mar 23, 2009
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