wiener_on_a_stick
21st September 2003, 06:27
Ce Drives,ATA7 ,Raid ,Multidrive Questions
About a month ago Seagate started shipping ATA7 standard hard drives for the Consumer Electronics industry.The main difference in these drives is the error checking seems to be set about roughly double what the error checking is with a pc.This is to accomidate for the fast streeming dtv/hdtv signals to the hard drive so it can take in more data per revolution.Now the question I have is aimed at the pc format,weither intel amd or apple.
Would it be possible to configure one drive for streeming video and dvr/pvr at the ATA7 double spaced error checking,and another in a pc mode with error checking set to normal.Is raid integrated into the main cpu now?
As I remember raid was a non main cpu feature,something you order with the motherboard,ya always saw a raid controler.
Next dealing with both settops dvd players dvr pvr and pc formats,
Is this modification going to allow hdtv recording in the original hdtv format,
or will it still have to be reduced to a dtv format to be recorded?
How this might affect the gaming in devices such as xbox and playstation? Might they need multidrives,one for game and pc functions and one for recording dtv from satelite or cable?
The Seagate drives come only in 5400 rpm versions.
How does ATA7 double spaced error checking stack up against a 7200 non
ATA7 drive? Can you buy a regular 7200 rpm model and change the settings to ATA7? How can I get a hardware site to review these drives and answer these questions for me? Heres the Seagate stories
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030828/sfth047_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030918/sfth062_1.html
This second one says that the toshiba product has multidrives but
thier are not 2 harddrives so why are they calling it multidrive?
Am I making a mistake I can't find the other hard drive anywhere in the literature? Wouldn't they need a special raid controler to do it like I said,one drive pc,one ATA7?
About a month ago Seagate started shipping ATA7 standard hard drives for the Consumer Electronics industry.The main difference in these drives is the error checking seems to be set about roughly double what the error checking is with a pc.This is to accomidate for the fast streeming dtv/hdtv signals to the hard drive so it can take in more data per revolution.Now the question I have is aimed at the pc format,weither intel amd or apple.
Would it be possible to configure one drive for streeming video and dvr/pvr at the ATA7 double spaced error checking,and another in a pc mode with error checking set to normal.Is raid integrated into the main cpu now?
As I remember raid was a non main cpu feature,something you order with the motherboard,ya always saw a raid controler.
Next dealing with both settops dvd players dvr pvr and pc formats,
Is this modification going to allow hdtv recording in the original hdtv format,
or will it still have to be reduced to a dtv format to be recorded?
How this might affect the gaming in devices such as xbox and playstation? Might they need multidrives,one for game and pc functions and one for recording dtv from satelite or cable?
The Seagate drives come only in 5400 rpm versions.
How does ATA7 double spaced error checking stack up against a 7200 non
ATA7 drive? Can you buy a regular 7200 rpm model and change the settings to ATA7? How can I get a hardware site to review these drives and answer these questions for me? Heres the Seagate stories
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030828/sfth047_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030918/sfth062_1.html
This second one says that the toshiba product has multidrives but
thier are not 2 harddrives so why are they calling it multidrive?
Am I making a mistake I can't find the other hard drive anywhere in the literature? Wouldn't they need a special raid controler to do it like I said,one drive pc,one ATA7?