Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 07:42:05 -0800 From: Glenn Trewitt <glenn@trewitt.org> To: Eric Timme <timothy@voidnet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ata33 vs others? Message-ID: <3E3BEACD.44B7B096@trewitt.org> References: <E18eYVc-0007xq-00@mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20030131114149.GA75587@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <200301311856.59367.timothy@voidnet.com>
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Eric Timme wrote:
> I was just wondering if the performance difference on a p2-400 would warrant
> me trying to find a controller card that can handle ata100/133, and if so,
> how hard it'd be to get the motherboard to utilize harddrives connected up to
> said controller card?
I've done exactly the same thing on a couple of old PII-400 systems that I have
(just going up to ata66, disk-limited) and it made a significant difference.
For example, the loader's "spinner" is now a blur. Not very scientific, but it
feels a lot faster.
I think that the difference between ata33 and ata66 or 100 will be very
noticable. Obviously, moving up from ata66 or ata100 will be much less dramatic
- you've already used up the factor of 2- or 3-X once you get away from ata33.
- Glenn
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