Asus P4PE with Serial ATA ok?

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Talal Itani

My PC has an Asus P4PE motherboard with two connectors for 'thin cable'
Serial ATA150. My current drive is an IDE drive, but I need to replace that
IDE drive. The P4PE was made when Serial ATA was still very new. Should I
get an SATA drive or stick with IDE on this motherboard? Thank you.

Talal Itani
 
My PC has an Asus P4PE motherboard with two connectors for 'thin cable'
Serial ATA150. My current drive is an IDE drive, but I need to replace that
IDE drive. The P4PE was made when Serial ATA was still very new. Should I
get an SATA drive or stick with IDE on this motherboard? Thank you.

Talal Itani
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Your board was prior to southbridge integral SATA function,
meaning it uses a Promise chip on the PCI bus to accomplish
SATA interface. That inherantly limits the performance and
takes away from PCI throughput, it will be better
performance to use a PATA drive IF the two drives you
compare are otherwise equal except for the interface type.
In other words, if you bought a Raptor it might outweight
the detractions of using SATA but otherwise use PATA.
 
kony said:
Your board was prior to southbridge integral SATA function,
meaning it uses a Promise chip on the PCI bus to accomplish
SATA interface. That inherantly limits the performance and
takes away from PCI throughput, it will be better
performance to use a PATA drive IF the two drives you
compare are otherwise equal except for the interface type.
In other words, if you bought a Raptor it might outweight
the detractions of using SATA but otherwise use PATA.
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Thanks Kony. I did not buy a Raptor. I will get a PATA drive.
 
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