about SATA

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Is SATA worth a try? I have a board capable and one on the way. After seeing
the conversions from regular ide to sata plugin, usb and sata, etc.It is not
much differnet is it? How much transmission is getting shared and crammed
onto those little cables? Are they hotter? Is it all that much of an
improvement over ata100? Could I have a no bull crap answer, I dont get
many. I am as uncertain as an Iomega zip drive user.(Remember that
disaster.. I had a perfect example) Who would guess it to be a "phase"
of great marketing, or is it the real deal to becoming a standard?. Speaking
of newer standard... Anybody's PCI-Express fall out like a 1998 AGP lately
?LOL. (I can't wait to try that common sense looking card slot out) Thanks
for helpful reply.
:o)
Barry
 
Is SATA worth a try? I have a board capable and one on the way. After seeing
the conversions from regular ide to sata plugin, usb and sata, etc.It is not
much differnet is it? How much transmission is getting shared and crammed
onto those little cables? Are they hotter? Is it all that much of an
improvement over ata100? Could I have a no bull crap answer, I dont get
many. I am as uncertain as an Iomega zip drive user.(Remember that
disaster.. I had a perfect example) Who would guess it to be a "phase"
of great marketing, or is it the real deal to becoming a standard?. Speaking
of newer standard... Anybody's PCI-Express fall out like a 1998 AGP lately
?LOL. (I can't wait to try that common sense looking card slot out) Thanks
for helpful reply.
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THey are faster than ATA but not so much that it's worth getting new
drives to replace existing ones.

Installing Windows wise, sometimes you have to press f6 and install a
SATA driver, even in non RAID mode, sometimes you don't as some BIOSes
offer IDE Channel/SCSI emulation.
 
bgd said:
Is SATA worth a try? I have a board capable and one on the way. After seeing
the conversions from regular ide to sata plugin, usb and sata, etc.It is not
much differnet is it? How much transmission is getting shared and crammed onto
those little cables? Are they hotter? Is it all that much of an improvement
over ata100? Could I have a no bull crap answer, I dont get many.
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The main advantage of SATA right now is the smaller cable, which keeps down the
obstructions to cooling airflow inside the case.

The POTENTIAL advantage of SATA is faster transfer speeds, but that is not
reality for most current SATA drives, because they are simply IDE drives with
the different interface. The physical limitations of the drives are reached
well before the bus limit (SATA or EIDE) is reached.

One exception to the above is the WD Raptor series of SATA drives. They are
purpose-built drives, and turn at 10,000 RPM instead of the normal 7,200 RPM for
IDE drives. The faster spindle speed allows for faster transfer rates.

If you want to use SATA for performance gains, go with the Raptor drives.
Otherwise, you'll be disappointed.
 
John said:
The main advantage of SATA right now is the smaller cable, which
keeps down the obstructions to cooling airflow inside the case.

The POTENTIAL advantage of SATA is faster transfer speeds, but that
is not reality for most current SATA drives, because they are simply
IDE drives with the different interface. The physical limitations of
the drives are reached well before the bus limit (SATA or EIDE) is
reached.
One exception to the above is the WD Raptor series of SATA drives. They
are purpose-built drives, and turn at 10,000 RPM instead of the
normal 7,200 RPM for IDE drives. The faster spindle speed allows for
faster transfer rates.
If you want to use SATA for performance gains, go with the Raptor
drives. Otherwise, you'll be disappointed.
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not really, they are over all quicker. my 2 wd 80 sata150s are faster than
my other 2 maxtor ata133 drives. also, be aware that some sata drives are
rumored to have problems with the newer nVidia raid controllers with large
file size transfers. and yes john, your raptor is one of them.

google is over there-----> check it out if you don't believe me.
 
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