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07-24-2007, 06:57 AM
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SATA - 32-bit?
My motherboard has defaulted the SATA drives to 32-bit transfer disabled. Should I set them to enabled?
My MB is an ASUS P5P and one drive is SATA I and the other SATA II, though the board only copes with SATA I. The CPU is a 775 3GHz. If a enable 32-bit transfer, will the drives be faster? Dazzer |
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07-24-2007, 08:43 AM
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Sata is a serial bus. so 32-bit is not applicable to SATA.
enable it should not affect the speed.
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07-24-2007, 02:37 PM
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This has to do with the block size of data being sent over the PCI bus or to the southbridge from an IDE hard drive controller (ie, a PCI IDE card). The default setting for the block size is 16 bits (2 bytes). You have the option of increasing that to 32 bits (4 bytes). This will over a bit of a speed increase.
Like alfie2 said, this will not affect SATA.
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