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Difference between ide and sata?

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I've always had ide harddrives. I've never had the chance to buy a sata harddrive. what is the difference. Is it just loading times? Is it a noticeable difference in speed?
 
Dutt1113 said:
I've always had ide harddrives. I've never had the chance to buy a sata harddrive. what is the difference. Is it just loading times? Is it a noticeable difference in speed?
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The speed is faster, the cables are ALOT smaller and more convienient, they are the "future"....and they cost the same if not less, as in my case.

Basically, if you have the choice, go with SATA...
 
HighwayAssassins said:
The speed is faster,
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Interface Speed as Basis for Classification

Id recommend starting that series here
http://www.lostcircuits.com/hdd/hdd2/

again not really, its unlikely your coming anywhere near saturating the current ATA100\IDE\PATA
and will see absolutely no benefit from the added 50MB\s of the SATA interface speed (i50MB\s) which would like ATA100's 100MB\s is really only employed for burst transfers off of into the cache, no single HDD in SATA or PATA has a sustained transfer rate anywhere near 100MB\s
 
The main difference?

SATA drives seem to be a pain in the ass to get working. Trying to get a Windows XP isntall to recognize them is like trying to shoot a fly in the dark...
 
I never had a problem with installing WinXP on a SATA drive as long as the SATA port was integrated into the chipset itself. If it is an onboard or PCI SATA port supplied by some other company such as highpoint and promise, then yeah it is ridiculous that you have to find a floppy to create a driver disk and then press F6 when WinXP setup says so.
 
WickedAngel said:
The main difference?

SATA drives seem to be a pain in the ass to get working. Trying to get a Windows XP isntall to recognize them is like trying to shoot a fly in the dark...
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the problem seems to be you have never actually used a SATA drive...only for RAID or for a PCI card would you need to push F6, and even then, it is easy and always works for me.
 
HighwayAssassins said:
the problem seems to be you have never actually used a SATA drive...only for RAID or for a PCI card would you need to push F6, and even then, it is easy and always works for me.
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Wrong.

Athlon FX-53
Asus A8V Deluxe
Seagate 160gb SATA HDD

The A8V doesn't recognize the HDD by default, so the third-party drivers must be loaded by pressing F6. Unfortunately, it still doesn't work (And many others seem to have the problem as well; "A8V SATA problem" turned up many results.
 
Just because a thousand people have a problem doesn't mean that they're not all going about it wrong. Look at all the people who post in here with "Only 127GB of my 400GB hard drive is showing!" (no offense intended...). This is a documented problem, the answers are out there. When I last installed Windows, it was onto a sata disk. Slipstreamed drivers, didn't need F6, had no problems.

This may be a motherboard-specific issue, but in general the easiest way is to slipstream yourself an XP disk and not worry about it again.

 
In the interest of universal peace and harmony
well that and since dueling has been outlawed :p
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Dutt1113 feel free to PM me for any additional questions or clarifications you might need
or your welcome to start another thread if Im asleep at the wheel ;)
 
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