EIDE vs. S ATA?

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Boe

Hello,

I've read the specs on the ATA vs. EIDE drives. I'm curious if anyone has
actually tested an ATA on the same motherboard as they have an EIDE and
noticed a difference. Of course I'm talking about similar hard drives 7200,
8mb, 100+gig.

If there is a better newsgroup for this please let me know.
 
Boe said:
Hello,

I've read the specs on the ATA vs. EIDE drives. I'm curious if anyone has
actually tested an ATA on the same motherboard as they have an EIDE and
noticed a difference. Of course I'm talking about similar hard drives 7200,
8mb, 100+gig.
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No present drive, even at 7200RPM, can saturate the current ATA100 channel.
Present SATA operates at 150, but doesn't use it either. The main advantage
of SATA is the use of smaller connecting cables, a single drive per controller,
(no drive jumpers), and a better path to future developments.

Changing from 5400 to 7200 shows the most observable speed up. A larger buffer,
(8MB), can help in some situations.

Virg Wall
 
Boe said:
I've read the specs on the ATA vs. EIDE drives. I'm curious if anyone has
actually tested an ATA on the same motherboard as they have an EIDE and
noticed a difference. Of course I'm talking about similar hard drives 7200,
8mb, 100+gig.
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The biggest problem is that most SATA drives on the market today are in fact
PATA drives with serial converter chip added on.
 
Alien Zord said:
The biggest problem is that most SATA drives on the market today are in fact
PATA drives with serial converter chip added on.
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Is there any easy way to identify these drives by model number and such.
Just wondering how to avoid the drives with the just the conversion chip
when ordering online.
 
There is not the big dirrence between the two interfaces as many think.....
 
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