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Does SATA really make that much of a difference??

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So I bought my new system (see sig below). I got 2 WD IDE 7200 rpm 250 gig hard drives for $102 each at a local Microcenter here (huge sale) for a RAID setup. I was interested if the benchmarks and actual real world use actually make it that much of a difference as I can still return my drives I bought.

PVD
 
What do you want/need the raid 0 for? What is your plan on that?

Well you can get a Seagate SATA 200 gig for $75.00 shipped, honestly that is the way to go. I'd take them back.

 
There is at least one good RAID 0 article under the "Storage" tab at the tp of the page.

For opinions of people here, just do a search with the box at the top of the page (so you only get results from GH not all forums) or use Advanced Search to look back at archived threads. RAID gets asked about pretty often.
 
Does SATA make a difference? Not really. It may give a slight boost, but IDE and SATA are pretty much the same.

RAID 0 does provide a slight boost as well, but it's not worth the dollars. We're talking about 1 - 3 seconds, that's it.
 
I've had sme bad experiences with SATA, or maybe it was just my motherboard. Personally, I'd stick with IDE simply because the only benefit OF SATA is a smaller cable, but the issues with drivers, my partcular motherboard makes it a complete waste of time.
 
Originally posted by: PVD
where can you get the Seagates for $75??
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There is a 50 dollar mail in rebate....... Look in my Hitachi "deathstar" thread were I said that is what I was going to buy.

a guy posted a link, it is a good deal dude

 
Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
I've had sme bad experiences with SATA, or maybe it was just my motherboard. Personally, I'd stick with IDE simply because the only benefit OF SATA is a smaller cable, but the issues with drivers, my partcular motherboard makes it a complete waste of time.
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SATA can also limit your overclock. I'll also stick with IDE for now.
 
it will later as the feature set approaches those of some scsi drives. but for now, it's better, but not that much better.
 
While sustained performance of an SATA drive is the same as that of an IDE drive, SATA offers a negligibly greater performance owing to the higher transfer rate from its cache.

Here's a review of the fastest 7200 RPM drive.
 
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