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| 339984 | 2005-03-31 14:23:00 | I have a P4 2.4Gh machine I bought in 2002. What is the difference between SATA and IDE? drives and will a SATA drive work on my machine? Thanks in advance. :) |
ironman (6770) | ||
| 339985 | 2005-03-31 15:09:00 | You will have to tell us what mobo you have. Or read the mobo manual. Or look on the mobo for small red plugs about 1cm across. SATA is surpose to be faster, the drives look nearly the same apart from the plugs on the rear. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 339986 | 2005-03-31 18:43:00 | Can someone tell me what's in RAID 0 too? Cheers :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 339987 | 2005-03-31 20:44:00 | Chances are your motherboard doesn't have sATA ports. In which case you can't use a sATA drive. But your manula will tell you - or take the lid off and have a look for the ports as the Rob99 says. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 339988 | 2005-03-31 20:52:00 | I have a P4 2.4Gh machine I bought in 2002. What is the difference between SATA and IDE? drives and will a SATA drive work on my machine? Thanks in advance. :) If your MB has SATA in the first place it certainly wont have Native Command Queuing so it wont be much of a speed increase at all for you. Best combination for SATA is RAID0 with MB and drives supporting NCQ. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 339989 | 2005-03-31 20:57:00 | Can someone tell me what's in RAID 0 too? Cheers :) Its another word for disk striping with 2 SATA's. Or 2 IDE hard drives, I think. It combines two or more hard drives into a single logical drive. BUT if one hdd fails/dies, the other hard drive will die as well. Usually, (I think), both hard drives are also the same size. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 339990 | 2005-03-31 22:27:00 | SATA - unless your motherboard has the connections (which I doubt but it may do) you cant connect SATA drives DIRECT to the motherboard. You can however buy a pci card with SATA connectors (kinda kills some of SATA speed tho) RAID: RAID 0 requires at least 2 harddrives (SATA or IDE) and stripes the data - in other words half the data goes on one drive, the rest of the data goes to the other. If one drive dies, the data on the other drive is useless (because it only contains one half of the data). Is quicker than RAID 1. Windows sees this RAID configuration as one drive of 80GB (2*40GB for example... where 40GB is the capacity of each drive) RAID 1 requires at least 2 harddrives (SATA or IDE) and mirrors the data - in other words a copy is made on each drive. If one drive goes down, you still have all data on the other one, so can keep going as if nothing happened. Slower than RAID 0 but safer. Seen as 40GB by Windows (even if both harddrives are 40GB - because you are mirroring your data) I hope this helps you |
Myth (110) | ||
| 339991 | 2005-03-31 22:51:00 | will a SATA drive work on my machine? Almost certainly not. Advantages of SATA (www.seagate.com) SATA2 will be even faster. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 339992 | 2005-03-31 23:43:00 | you could always use a pci sata contoller. however the pci bus is proberly going to limit max speed a bit. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 339993 | 2005-04-01 18:21:00 | Thanks for the detail explanation, Myth. Cheers :) | Renmoo (66) | ||
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