D-Bone
Jun 24th '04, 11:56 PM
New Maxtor MaxLine III.
250GB, 16MB buffer, NCQ support.
Here's the full article:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2094
I found this bit about the new Intel chipset supporting these drives interesting:<blockquote>Dubbed Intel's Matrix RAID, the new ICH allows for RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays to be created across partitions, and not only across physical disks. For example, using Intel's Matrix RAID, you could take two 120GB disks and make half of the new array a RAID 0 partition and the other half, a RAID 1 partition.</blockquote>
Holy fricking cool!
And what is NCQ support you ask? Another snipet:<blockquote>Native Command Queuing is a technology that allows the hard drive to reorder dynamically its requests according to the location of the requests on a platter. It's like this - say you had to go to the grocery store and the drug store next to it, the mall and then back to the grocery store for something else. Doing it in that order would not make sense; you'd be wasting time and money. You would naturally re-order your errands to grocery store, grocery store, drug store and then the mall in order to improve efficiency. Native Command Queuing does just that for disk accesses.</blockquote>
I'll take 2.
250GB, 16MB buffer, NCQ support.
Here's the full article:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2094
I found this bit about the new Intel chipset supporting these drives interesting:<blockquote>Dubbed Intel's Matrix RAID, the new ICH allows for RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays to be created across partitions, and not only across physical disks. For example, using Intel's Matrix RAID, you could take two 120GB disks and make half of the new array a RAID 0 partition and the other half, a RAID 1 partition.</blockquote>
Holy fricking cool!
And what is NCQ support you ask? Another snipet:<blockquote>Native Command Queuing is a technology that allows the hard drive to reorder dynamically its requests according to the location of the requests on a platter. It's like this - say you had to go to the grocery store and the drug store next to it, the mall and then back to the grocery store for something else. Doing it in that order would not make sense; you'd be wasting time and money. You would naturally re-order your errands to grocery store, grocery store, drug store and then the mall in order to improve efficiency. Native Command Queuing does just that for disk accesses.</blockquote>
I'll take 2.