Re: [9fans] cheep ssds

[dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 03 of August 2011 15:16:00 erik quanstrom wrote:
> i think the speed ratio of 2:1 is not correct.
> 
> first, you must be assuming udma 133.  i have never seen a udma 133 target.
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> the fastest udma device i can find is udma 100.  this is not 100mhz, it's
> 100mb/s.  where as 3.0gb sata is 3.0gb/s / 10 bits/byte = 300mb/s.
> that's 3x, not 2x.  (both are in decimal, as you can calculate from the
> udma cycle time of 40ns, double-pumped).  and of course sata 6.0gb is
> 6x faster than pata.

thanks for the correction and please excuse my post; it was an early-morning 
brain-fart :^)

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