[kwlug-disc] Data transfer speeds SATA to SATA

[William Park]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:23:25PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) wrote:
> > On Sep 21, 2015, at 10:50 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >> The motherboard is a bit older (Socket 775/Core 2 generation), not sure if
> >> an upgrade would help (I'd probably buy an inexpensive Socket FM2+), but if
> > 
> > Forget AMD.  Go with Intel.
> 
> While I too prefer Intel over AMD, I don???t think the CPU is actually
> doing much to help or hinder the transfers. Everything will be DMA???d
> from one buffer to another, with the CPU just minding the transfers
> and waiting for them to complete. 

Yes, when I said "Intel", I meant Intel cpu, chipset, and motherboards
are better.  I had AMD 8-core 125W system, and it would choke when doing
any IO.  The cpu/memory bandwidth was ok, judging by kernel compile
times.  I replaced it with i3, because I could no longer afford
electricity.
-- 
William