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post #1 of 11
10/25/03 at 1:27pm
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What is the difference between these two hard drives anybody know?
80 gig 7200 SATA 8mb cache
80 gig 7200 ide 8mb cache
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post #2 of 11
10/25/03 at 1:34pm
To make it easy.... It has the same speed, just different interface.
SATA tend to be a bit more expensive than IDE since it's a new technology.
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post #3 of 11
10/25/03 at 1:43pm
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Do you recommend one over the other?
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post #4 of 11
10/25/03 at 2:01pm
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Originally posted by G-man
Do you recommend one over the other?
If the SATA drive was the WD Raptor 10,000rpm drive, yes.

But since it is just 7200rpm, you might as well stick to IDE for now, until SATA becomes even more widespread.
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post #5 of 11
10/25/03 at 7:06pm
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Thank you!
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post #6 of 11
10/25/03 at 7:12pm
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Originally posted by G-man
Thank you!
No problem.
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post #7 of 11
10/26/03 at 1:04am
Ill put it this way... if you dont know what SATA is, you dont have a motherboard with it... :P


Anyway, SATA is faster, even on a 7200 drive, but it still helps to have a faster drive..
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post #8 of 11
10/26/03 at 12:05pm
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Originally posted by Divine_Madcat

Anyway, SATA is faster, even on a 7200 drive, but it still helps to have a faster drive..
Actually in the theory SATA is a bit faster than ATA(IDE), but in the real world it's perform the same. You can look for those benchmark on the internet. But there is no doubt that in the future SATA will be faster than ATA.
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post #9 of 11
10/26/03 at 2:08pm
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Originally posted by Kasteo
Actually in the theory SATA is a bit faster than ATA(IDE), but in the real world it's perform the same. You can look for those benchmark on the internet. But there is no doubt that in the future SATA will be faster than ATA.
The tests varied a little from what I've seen. There have been as much as a 1% improvement to a 1% decrease in performance.

Regardless, its not worth it if its no the WD 10,000rpm Raptor drive. Once they start making it in sizes other than 36.7gb I'll be all over it.
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post #10 of 11
11/13/03 at 11:05am
Well if you have a SATA capable motherboard then difinately go for that rather than IDE. Most HDD now that are IDE usually have a SATA version for only 4 or so pounds more (about 8 dollars) more. Since the connection is a wire rather than a ribbon it's also easier to manage aswell.
It'll also set you for future upgrades since HDD are usually the most salvagable parts of a comp even in big upgrades.
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post #11 of 11
12/8/03 at 5:09pm
I just built a new desktop, and chose SATA drives, since my Asus motherboard supported it. It also included onboard RAID, so I set that up. I'm pretty happy with it. I don't know how much of a peformance boost it gives me, but with the cables being much thinner, it makes the case interior a lot less congested, even more so than IDE drives with rounded cables.
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