SATA II question

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If I simply replace my current aging PATA drive (WD 1200JB) with a SATA 2
drive ( Hitachi T7K250, and yes, my mobo does support it), will I see much
of a performance boost, or do these drives show their stuff better in a RAID
configuration? I'm in the midst of an upgrade and the disk subsystem is the
only area I'm unsure about bumping. TIA.
 
Dale Brisket said:
If I simply replace my current aging PATA drive (WD 1200JB) with a
SATA 2 drive ( Hitachi T7K250, and yes, my mobo does support it),
will I see much of a performance boost,
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Yes, the Hitachi does perform a bit better. The difference wont
blow your sox off tho, so no need to superglue them on or anything.
 
Yes, the Hitachi does perform a bit better. The difference wont
blow your sox off tho, so no need to superglue them on or anything.
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So, then why are users readily adopting SATA if even with its latest spec
it still doesn't outperform PATA by that much? Is it simply a case of it
being the latest thing? Hmmm, for that matter, why am I thinking about it?
 
So, then why are users readily adopting SATA if even with
its latest spec it still doesn't outperform PATA by that much?
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Basically because the drives are about the same price
unless you concentrate on rebated runouts and you get
a bit more future with SATA, tho its arguable how much
you will want to move drives to a new system.
Is it simply a case of it being the latest thing?
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Mostly. SATA does give more future in the sense that it
will be fine for faster drives not being produced yet, once
PATA has started to limit those as yet unseen drives.
Hmmm, for that matter, why am I thinking about it?
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Why indeed. You normally noticed the biggest difference
in performance with a new motherboard and cpu with higher
FSB speeds with how fast the system feels. The drive
speed doesnt matter much for what most people do with
their system with the class of drives you are considering.

I basically just buy them on silence now. I've only been
buying new drives because I have replaced the VCRs with
digital TV capture cards, currently 4 channels, and those
burn up drive space like there is no tomorrow, 2-3GB per
channel per hour which fills even 250G drives pretty quickly.

And I have all those cards in an older 900MHz celeron which
is also used to playback the file I am currently watching.
 
Previously Dale Brisket said:
If I simply replace my current aging PATA drive (WD 1200JB) with a SATA 2
drive ( Hitachi T7K250, and yes, my mobo does support it), will I see much
of a performance boost, or do these drives show their stuff better in a RAID
configuration? I'm in the midst of an upgrade and the disk subsystem is the
only area I'm unsure about bumping. TIA.
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Speed inprovement is not much, if anything at all, in curent disks.
But you get better cabeling (and hence better airflow) and you get
rid of the problem that IDE may have performance issues with two
drives on one bus.

Arno
 
Rod Speed said:
Basically because the drives are about the same price
unless you concentrate on rebated runouts and you get
a bit more future with SATA, tho its arguable how much
you will want to move drives to a new system.


Mostly. SATA does give more future in the sense that it
will be fine for faster drives not being produced yet, once
PATA has started to limit those as yet unseen drives.
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I guess that explains why I'm thinking about going with SATA. It seems
somehow wrong to plop a dual-core CPU and faster RAM in an upgrade that is
running 2 year-old noisy drives. The future-yeah, that's the ticket....
 
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