Originally Posted by Evil XP2400 Yup, go SATA and never look back. |
Originally Posted by Denmor yes, but you also have to look at the latency in the transfer methods. Despite the maxtor having a longer seek time, it will be faster overall because SATA is so much faster than ATA. |
Originally Posted by Nob ty, so which brand would u go with? Maxtor or WD ? Seagate drives are almost $20 more expensive for the sata 200gb. |
Originally Posted by VulcanDragon I haven't gone SATA yet, but man you guys sure paint a rosy picture. Is the difference between 133 MB/s (ATA) and 150 MB/s (SATA, currently) really all that noticable in normal operations? Sure if I'm moving a 4GB DVD image around, or installing a large software distribution...but those are not typical day-to-day things, they are rather infrequent for most people. I guess I'm just skeptical, considering how enthusiastic the SATA RAID advocates are in direct contrast to the empirical benchmarks and tests I have read. I also heard that SATA drives seem to fail faster than ATA drives. This would make sense to me, only because it is newer, less evolved technology. Anyone experience problems of this nature yet? I'll get to SATA one day, but I'm not really in any hurry until the next generation (300 MB/s). |
Originally Posted by digitalphreak To say that SATA performance increase isnt worth the very little extra dollars you gotta pay to get one is just being a tightwad. |
SATA is noticeably quicker even in day-to-day operations. Think about it. You only get 150 Mbps in bursts. So you get most of the speed in small operations which is mostly what day-to-day usage is. I have one and will never go back. Plus you dont have to deal with bulky IDE cables. You know what they say, "Dont knock it til you try it." |
Originally Posted by digitalphreak To say that SATA performance increase isnt worth the very little extra dollars you gotta pay to get one is just being a tightwad. SATA is noticeably quicker even in day-to-day operations. Think about it. You only get 150 Mbps in bursts. So you get most of the speed in small operations which is mostly what day-to-day usage is. I have one and will never go back. Plus you dont have to deal with bulky IDE cables. You know what they say, "Dont knock it til you try it." |
Originally Posted by nayo_450 or split the difference with this http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...999-401&depa=0 |