Sata 6.0 gb/s worth it?

Tumerboy · Mar 2010

Looking to build a new box, and am debating about whether or not it's worth it to step up to a system that'll do SATA 6.0? Opinions?

Specifically comparing these 2 mobos:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200280%2050001315%201070545356%201075707618&StoreType=-1&CompareItemList=N82E16813131359,N82E16813131614&bop=And

PolyHertz · Mar 2010

Only worth it if you plan on using SSD at some point.

ZacD · Mar 2010

PolyHertz wrote: »

Only worth it if you plan on using SSD at some point.

SSD's are the future, and prices are dropping like crazy

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/10/ocz-breaks-into-bargain-market-with-sub-100-32gb-onyx-ssd/

Tumerboy · Mar 2010

ya, between SATA 6 and USB 3 I may just bite the bullet and get it. Though I realized I need to wait til the end of the month anyway, so I'm not rushing into anything yet.

Junkie_XL · Mar 2010

Is it not worth getting SSD if you have SATA 3.0?

ZacD · Mar 2010

Junkie_XL wrote: »

Is it not worth getting SSD if you have SATA 3.0?

Take, for example, the new Corsair Extreme Series of high-performance SSDs. The press release touts the speed of the drives: "Built using the renowned Indilinx Barefoot controller and Samsung MLC NAND flash memory, the Extreme Series has been designed to offer the highest performance currently available on the market, with read speeds of up to 240 MBps and write speeds of up to 170 MBps." 240 MBps is 1,920 Mbps, or 1.9Gbpsdangerously close to that theoretical limit of SATA 2.0.

At the rate prices are dropping and speed is increasing for SDD drives, in less than 2 years there will be cheap drives that are faster than 3Gb/s hopefully at some decent sizes (250 gigs plz?)

haiddasalami · Mar 2010

Got an SSD for 60$ but it was first gen controllers...still not bad. Loads Windows 7 in 7 secs.

Junkie_XL · Mar 2010

Well color me interested. Thanks ZacD.

Bootup in 7 seconds. wow.

edit: I'd be curious to know how fast the "compacting mem" wait times are in zbrush with one of these. Sounds like virtual memory would become as fast as ram?

haiddasalami · Mar 2010

Junkie_XL wrote: »

Well color me interested. Thanks ZacD.

Bootup in 7 seconds. wow.

Well thats excluding all my motherboard bios check and everything. Including all that its 15-20 secs from the time i power it on.

Tumerboy · Mar 2010

Ok, rather than starting a new thread, here's my plan so far. Anyone see any holes or issues? (other than the Graphics card that I'm going to keep from my old system. 8600 GTS is decent enough for now)

Mobo: ASUS P6X58D
CPU: I7-920 Bloomfield
Memory: Corsair XMS3 (3x2GB)
HD: WD Caviar Black SATA 6.0 gb/s
DVD: Sony 24x SATA DVD/CD Burner
Case: Cooler Master Elite 335
PSU: Cooler Master 700w Modular
Card Reader: Rosewill Card Reader

(This is all largely based off the last few new PC threads I could find in the Tech section.)

Comes in just over $1200 w/tax & tip. A bit more than I was hoping to drop, but I can handle it if it's all worthwhile. . .opinions?

dejawolf · Mar 2010

*edit*

Sata 6.0 gb/s worth it?

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