SATA vs IDE on an nForce3

error-in-excellence said:
I'm going to get a new HDD for my gaming PC which has an nForce3 mobo with an integrated SATA controller. I'm looking at two drives right now:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

SEAGATE 400GB PATA ST3400632A-RK.

Would the SATA drive be noticeably faster?
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since you are comparing a 7200.10 to a 7200.8, it is likely that the difference in chace and improved areal density will make the SATA drive faster, though it depends whether your 320GB drive is a short stroked bigger one of not (see storagereview forums).

However, the difference in speed will not be due to the interface change, but rather intrinsic to the improvements that were made to the seagate HDDs over the course of two generations. Whether the speed increase in noticable, I am not sure.
 
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