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| Thread ID: 49969 | 2004-10-06 02:59:00 | HDD .. SATA vs IDE ATA | |llus|oN (645) | Press F1 |
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| 278601 | 2004-10-06 21:42:00 | I've noticed that motherboards based on Intels new 915 chipset have 4 sata connections but only 1 pata connection (presumably for optical drives). | Davesdad (923) | ||
| 278602 | 2008-01-07 11:29:00 | My 2 cents worth on ISA My work machine runs a point to point router connected to the computer through a ISA communication card. After 11 years of faithful service without a hiccup or upgrade the computer gave up the ghost. Being aware of the death of ISA I was up the proverbial river looking at a $140,000.00 bill to upgrade my machine. Until i found that i was not alone in this situation and was pointed in the direction of those who deal in industrial machinery. It is now possible to purchase new motherboards with ISA slots. So every thing old is new again, so to speak. That said, i would not rule IDE out just yet as this shows that although the manufacturers may try to control the market, they cant go past customer demand. P.S. My home machine runs a 120gig SATA main drive with 3 IDE drives from my old machine as storage plus a DVD burner |
steveshel (6244) | ||
| 278603 | 2008-01-07 18:14:00 | I remember MFM, and the wonderful new technology RLL drives! In the last 6 months I've installed PCs with both IDE and SATA boot hard disks and boot CD/DVD drives. To me it makes absolutely no difference - just make sure you use the technology expected by the motherboard bios. Many motherboards now have multiple interfaces and different chipsets - it seems one is intended for boot, the other for a RAID (or JBOD) configuration for data. The second chipset requires drivers, which can be a nuisance (not impossible) to load when installing a new o/s. It is usually obvious which interfaces the manufacturer intended to use for boot disks - use that to avoid endless happy hours of fiddling around to get the other interfaces to boot! |
ledzep (1441) | ||
| 278604 | 2008-01-07 20:39:00 | How do you people manage to pull up these old threads? | noone (22) | ||
| 278605 | 2008-01-07 22:12:00 | that was interesting reading the old predictions - seeing who was right & who was wrong. Still waiting for your terabyte flash drive? | Greven (91) | ||
| 278606 | 2008-01-08 02:20:00 | Hello, welcome to 2004 for the record, Seagate announced last year they would be phasing out IDE drives: www.theinquirer.net I think some seagate SATA drives could be faster than the IDE equivalent; the 750gb sata has 32mb cache, whereas the IDE 750gb has only 16mb. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
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