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 Post subject: Serial ATA vs. IDE
PostPosted: Wed 12-08-2004 6:08PM 
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Hey I've heard there is little difference in current Serial ATA drives as compared to IDE, but soon Serial ATA will be much much faster?
Does anyone have any good links for new info and comaprisons of SATA and IDE?
How does newest SCSI stack up?
What's the fastest config(HD/Controler) out now? (besides RAM Drives)
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As of right now Sata is a little faster (@150MB/s) as opposed to IDE (@133MB/s ATA133).

I've heard that a lot of companies are going to drop IDE in favor of Sata. Good call too because Sata only uses a small 7pin cable compared to the 100+ something cables for an IDE drive. Sata is also supposed to get some major speed boosts in the next couple of years.... drives as fast as 600MB/s!

Don't know a whole lot about scsi but it's expensive.

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SATA II is replacing SATA I in a few years. It is twice as fast and uses the same cable.

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I am running all IDE right now. And, to be honest, that is the worst part of my computer. It is the main bottleneck. I only bought IDE cause the price was like $0.40 per gigabyte!

The only HDs worth anything are the WesterDigital Raptors. Get two of those suckers in RAID0. 10,000 RPM each. 36.7GB (yes small). 150MB/S. I'm told you get load up windows XP in 2-4 seconds.

They cost $109 a drive. And two of them in RAID0 wont be cheap.
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I have a raptor 10k rpm drive I use for just games... loads about 30% faster as expected. I've heard that raid doesn't actually help all that much, may depend on your card/mobo though. I have a 7200rpm 200GB SataII drive in my computer right now, I can definitely tell it's faster then my 80GB IDE one.

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Are load times the only thing a faster hdd will help with? With regard to games that is.
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Well that’s what a HD is for, loading stuff, whether it is games, movies, or OS's. The faster the hard drive the quicker it will do all of those.

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is SATA II out now?
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GoldFiles wrote:
is SATA II out now?


I believe the nForce4 chipsets have it. If you're upgrading to that though, you'd better be shitting gold bricks because you'll have to buy a totally new system with a pciE vid card.

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No. AMD doesn't even support PCIe yet. My x800 XT PE is AGP 8x.
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it will be along shortly

http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/nforce4-ultra/index.x?pg=1

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Sata is also hot-swapable ... if that floats your boat.
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SATA isn't as overclocker friendly as IDE though...Just keep that in mind.
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I have a Samsung 160gig SATA and absolutley love it. Quiet and ultra-fast....much better than IDE. The smaller connectors are nice too, and take up a lot less room in the computer case.
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snipermav wrote:
SATA isn't as overclocker friendly as IDE though...Just keep that in mind.

do explain ...
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