List of fake vs. real SATA drives.

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Thomas Wolf wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu> schrieb:
> 
> 
>>FUJISHIMA Satsuki wrote:
>>
>>>Currently native SATA drives are still not so popular. There are:
>>
>>>Seagate Barracuda ATA V, 7200.7, 7200.8
>>
>>I have one of these, and I am really impressed by its performance.  I 
>>added one to my computer, which came with a Maxtor 6Y080L0.  My main 
>>disk intensive operation is creating the CTM deltas (as in CTM which is 
>>an alternative to CVSUP for people behind unfriendly firewalls).  The 
>>performance difference was somewhat collosal, as in something like 3 
>>times faster.  To be honest, I am still at a loss to explain why the 
>>Seagate did so very much better - maybe it is the 8M cache as compared 
>>to the 2M cache.  The Seagate 7200.7 had similar performance to a 
>>Seagate 160MHz SCSI drive that I have on another computer.
> 
> 
> Ah, please tell me more about it, is this a ST3120827AS?
> (I would need the exact PartNo.) What controller dou you have 
> and finally, on which version of FreeBSD?
> 


ST380013AS with Intel ICH5 SATA150 controller and FreeBSD 4.10-Stable. 
The kernel reports that it is running at UDMA33, but the actual 
performance seems much better than that.