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ATA or SATA?

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ellover009

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I am looking into a new hard drive, My pc supports ata and sata.
right now I am using an ATA drive. I went to my local compusa and I did not see 1 SATA.
So I'm wondering is there any disadbantage to SATA?
 
The only disadvantage to SATA is that drive makers and dealersstill insist on charging more for it. Cables are neater, interface has more potential and features. However, the price difference between P and S is small nowadays. If your system is SATA ready at no extra charge, I'd head for the future now.

I have sold all but one of my PATA drives. The only reason I am keeping it is because my SFF is PATA only. Dad still has a quite a few, but I'm going SATA all the way. 'Tis the end of an era.
 
SATA is faster and not really that expensive. You can find SATA now for great prices some even better than ATA. I seen a big improvement on boot times and program loading. I would go ATA only if 16mb buffer they are almost as fast as SATA drives.
 
SATA is not really faster. It has more bandwidth than IDE, however there are no hard drives that can cap out IDE bandwidth, much less SATA or SATA II. The only device that uses the interface that is capable of capping out the bus is Gigabyte's ramdrive. SATA drives make for much easier cable management, and some have certain features (NCQ, etc). IIRC, they also use slightly less power. However, no single SATA drive could even saturate the IDE bus, much less the SATA bus.
 
I searched 10 different stores today, looking for a SATA drive. My IDE drive went bonkers and lost all my data so I needed a new drive and I wanted to go SATA, my mobo supports both, and I finally found one at MicroCenter. It was on sale too. $120 for a SATA 200gb. Not bad for retail.

I like SATA over IDE now....I don't know why...I just do. Maybe it is just that little cable, but I am not going back to IDE again.
 
I use SATA too, costs around the same. But aren't most SATA cables unshielded? I don't think I've ever had a problem with that though. I can't really tell the difference between SATA and PATA...
 
how come they are more rare to find? 1yr ago it was the big thing, everyone wanted one but noone could affort one.
 
The big stores carry what the consumers know. It's not like you see SATA in the news everyday. It will take a while yet before the avereage consumer knows/wants a sata drive. Also the big stores cater towards buying entirely new systems or selling parts for older systems. It's not that they are rare to find. Any online retailer has them. It is more that there isn't a need for them yet to the average consumer so why stock something that might not sell yet.
 
browsing hdd's on newegg.....how come the SATA drives have the same average latency and seek time as ATA?
 
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