Sam
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I assume that unless you are buying an SSD, there is no point going for a SATA III hard drive as it'll never actually get anywhere near those speeds (or even reach SATA II speeds) due to the drive limitations?
Reason I ask is that although the board I am buying for my new gaming/web development PC will support SATA III, I have a couple of spare 250GB SATA II drives which I was planning on using in it.
I am planning on using an SSD for my C: drive to boot the OS and apps off, but use the two HDDs for file storage only.
I guess what I am trying to ask is, do I need to shell out for a new SATA III hard drive for storage or can I just use my existing stock and not worry about any performance degradation as there will be no improvement in speed...
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Bart
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there is a noticeable difference between Sata II and III.
As its only for storage, there is no need to shell out on a new Sata III hard drive.
Ive actually done the same myself (albeit have 2x Sata III disks in raid0 for my main OS).
If you use your storage drive for working on large files (such as artwork, video editing etc etc), its best to move that file to your desktop while editing, then back to your storage drive, that way everything will be working at its quickest.
hth
*edit* I actually have a 3rd SSD kicking around (a matching third) and am thinking of buying a Per5/6 raid controller and going to 4 SSDs in a raid 0 
[Edited on 28-10-2012 by Bart]
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Sam
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Cheers.
I will probably have an all-SSD system when prices become more favourable as I got an SSD in my MacBook Pro and love the speed but something like a 512GB SSD x2 would cost quite a lot at the moment 
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Bart
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going back to my post, Ive just realised that the transfer speed from the storage hard drive is less than half of that from an SSD.
Transferring my downloaded videos to my NAS over the network was getting ~40mb/s.
I decided to put my 3rd SSD (128GB) and use this as my storage drive.
Now when moving my files over to the network drive, im getting ~110mb/s, a nice increase.
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John
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Something not right there, should be able to saturate a gigabit connection no bother with a normal hard drive.
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noshua
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NAS will probably be bottleneck
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
NAS will probably be bottleneck
Its quite a high spec NAS, i.e dual core cpu, 4gb ram IIRC
The normal HDD was a Samsung spinpoint F1, 750GB.
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