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    Need to speed up I/O!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by struck, Oct 12, 2007.

  1. struck

    struck Newbie

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    I have an old laptop 1.6ghz P-M Centrino, 1.21GB 333 ram, and 80 gb 5400 Toshiba (crap) HDD..

    The I/O performance is way messed up. It never crossed more 30mb / sec on benchmarks.

    Problem:
    Mainboard doesn't supports SATA, only ATA.

    What options do I have? I know with 7,200rpm hdd, I will be able to get some performance benefits, but I want speed close to 50 mb / sec which should be possible on SATA.

    Should I get a SATA hdd and make it work using the USB 2.0 interface? (in an external USB 2.0 enclosure?)

    Please suggest!
     
    struck, Oct 12, 2007
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  2. powerpack

    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    This link is to Hitachi on this page you will see many ARA (PATA) 7200rpm HDD's. I have a Hitachi 5400rpm and get 40MB/s. USB 2.0 will not give the kind of throughput you want.
     
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    struck Newbie

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    Thanks for the reply.. But isn't USB 2.0 480mbps which is way more than what these laptop disks will offer? I thought upto 60 mb / sec was achievable at least on USB 2.0?
     
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    That is theoretical you will not ever see that. USB has overhead that gives a performance hit. And many other reasons I do not know. I am certain you will not get anyway near 50MB/s. Sorry.
     
    powerpack, Oct 12, 2007
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