sata or pata

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which HD would be better for my OS to be on

160GB seagate sata 8mb 7200rpm
or 160GB samsung pata 8mb 7200rpm

on a nf7-s
Thank you
 
Figurt said:
which HD would be better for my OS to be on

160GB seagate sata 8mb 7200rpm
or 160GB samsung pata 8mb 7200rpm

on a nf7-s
Thank you
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Performance will be slightly better with SATA, but it will be hard to
notice. Another point is the volume of the cables, where SATA is much
smaller and will allow better case cooling.
 
Figurt said:
which HD would be better for my OS to be on

160GB seagate sata 8mb 7200rpm
or 160GB samsung pata 8mb 7200rpm

on a nf7-s
Thank you
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Among 7200RPM 8MB cache IDE hard drives, you will not see any performance
differences between SATA and PATA.

Western Digital markets the 37/74GB Raptor series of SATA drives which
benchmarks like a 10K SCSI hard drive.
 
which HD would be better for my OS to be on

160GB seagate sata 8mb 7200rpm
or 160GB samsung pata 8mb 7200rpm

on a nf7-s
Thank you
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Sorry, accidentally smacked the wrong button on Agent.

Anyways, in terms of performance, the difference will be negligible.
The bandwidth of ATA133 (PATA) never really reached saturation even
with the 7200 RPM drives. As such, I would be very surprised if
drives with such similar specs perform significantly different even
with the different interfaces.

Given the option, I'd probably go for the SATA drive, for the simple
reason that future PATA interfaces are supposed to be phased out in
future motherboards. That way, I could avoid the hassles later if I
upgrade to a motherboard without a PATA interface.
 
which HD would be better for my OS to be on

160GB seagate sata 8mb 7200rpm
or 160GB samsung pata 8mb 7200rpm

on a nf7-s
Thank you
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Which OS?

Define 'better'.



Have a nice week...

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which HD would be better for my OS to be on

160GB seagate sata 8mb 7200rpm
or 160GB samsung pata 8mb 7200rpm

on a nf7-s
Thank you
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Hardly, if any, difference. The bigger issue is that
Windows will want to boot off of the PATA as its
preferred drive. Installing to IDE is also much simpler
then SATA (AFAIK, WinXP install still requires you to
hit F6 during the install CD boot if you want to install
to a non-IDE drive).
 
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