Sata hard drives

[Maxx]

Has anyone on here noticed a difference in performance in these types of drives?? Im still using ide drives atm and thinking of upgrading one of them or maybe both as the one Windows is on is fat32 and a bit corrupted, wont go to ntfs for some reason. Is it worth the upgrade??

 

[FiDoDiDo]

There is supposed to be a huge improvement on PATA drives but to be honest I've not noticed a huge difference. PATA drives are getting phases out though and motherboard are now supporting SATA as standard in general.

If you want a real difference you want to get a disk that is 10,000rpm, instead of the normal 7,200rpm or 5,400rpm.

 

[Daz]

There's not really any performance difference - just better cabling etc..

The WD Raptor is a 10k SATA drive which you would notice a difference in (access times mainly!)

Or, go SCSI and get a 15k drive - I did.. and it's pretty sweet.. altho, in a desktop environment, the Raptor wouldn't be far, if at all, behind.

 

[Tim-Grove]

The 10k drive are supposed to be quite loud aren’t they??

 

[Daz]

Probably.. on access anyway!

 

[Maxx]

I'll prob get a 80gig sata drive then as theyre cheap enough at the moment. Would the computer be funny if you had a sata for a master drive and ide ata for secondary??

 

[FiDoDiDo]

As long as you have the controllers for them it will be fine, there just to hard drives to the computer.

 

[biojo]

ive been on sata ones for ages now no difference in performance,
between a 7200 ide maxtor and the equivelent maxter sata one .

 

[bsimmer3000]

i got 2 of the raptor 74gb drives in raid 0 and they are fast and a little loud but no kore than a maxtor or ibm normal 7200rpm drive

 

[Dink]

i've got a pair of seagate 120Gb SATA in RAID 0:approve::approve::approve:

they are fast enough for me

 

[wozzaa]

Theres slight differences in performance but its not massive then again you wouldnt notice a massive difference even with a 10k rpm drive or 15k drive there are improvments but its not as much as people seem to think.

Benchmarks for sata seem to suggest theres a large difference in real world its not soo much.

 

[David]

i've got 2 raptor drives and i don't notice anything.