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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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| 278581 | 2004-10-06 02:59:00 | One for the hardware techos. Was just wondering if there is any speed difference (data transfer and/or search) between an sata hdd and an ide ata hdd of the same brand, same speed etc all other things being equal. ie: I have one of each (both barracuda 7200 120gig drives), so which, if there is a difference at all, should be faster? I am thinking the sata, but could of course be wrong. TIA :) |
|llus|oN (645) | ||
| 278582 | 2004-10-06 03:07:00 | why not run a read/write benchmark on them yourself? ,that will give you concrete results. | metla (154) | ||
| 278583 | 2004-10-06 03:16:00 | IDE can do 133Mb/s at best STAT can do 150MBs or more depending on the drive and controler. SATA should be faster but that would be in the textbook world. SATA can also do command queing or some such, if given a number of read and write requests the drive can decide to do them in a diffrent order if that would be faster. best answer would be to benchmarjk them yourself :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 278584 | 2004-10-06 03:26:00 | Many thanks. The 'textbook' reply is good enough for me, as well as not having the knowledge nor inclination to do the benchmarking. Am building myself a second computer and was wondering to myself which of these two to put in it. | |llus|oN (645) | ||
| 278585 | 2004-10-06 03:29:00 | The read speed is quite irrilivent when its the transfer speed that is the bottleneck,Waste of time asking the question if you just take the stats as an answer. | metla (154) | ||
| 278586 | 2004-10-06 03:29:00 | Sata is slightly faster. The big advantage of it is that it allows your computer to run cooler. No hot air trapped under the old ribbon cables. Remember that in the next few months IDE drives will become obsolete. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 278587 | 2004-10-06 03:40:00 | Due to current harddrive technologies inability to fully ulitize ATA133 let alone SATA150 there is currently only a very small performance increase offered by SATA over older PATA technology. The only drives currently capable of out performing PATA drives are the 10,00RPM Raptors by Western Digital. The SATA I standard itself doesnt require NCQ, but several harddrive manufactuers are now implementing it in their new drives. But to take full advantage of NCQ you need a controller capable of NCQ. At the moment the only controller that supports NCQ is the ICH6R from Intel. The new VIA southbridge also supports it and the nForce4 is expect to support it aswell. If youve got the drives get off your ass, do the benchmarks and tell us how they perform compared to each other. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 278588 | 2004-10-06 04:03:00 | > Remember that in the next few months IDE drives will > become obsolete. > Jack Could you justify and Confirm that? For us uninformed. Ie the date on which seagate, or some other, intend to Cease production of the IDE drive. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 278589 | 2004-10-06 07:31:00 | Of course I can't. But think back over the history of the computer. Every time they dream up something a bit different the item it replaces goes out of production. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 278590 | 2004-10-06 07:31:00 | with all things being equal ....theres no difference in speed. however you can lose quite a bit of speed due to buggy/poor chipsets, poor drivers and the OS itself. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
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