Re: Playing with SATA NCQ

[Jeff Garzik]

Michael Thonke wrote:
> Well the subjective feeling is great through! What I noticed is a
> improvement on rsync (goes slighty faster drive to drive).
> The noise decrease now it only make noise on very heavy IO reads and writes.


It might be as simple as...  NCQ means the drive is doing more work. 
More work means more noise.

	Jeff


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